[Haskell-cafe] On the verge of ... giving up!

[Sterling Clover]

Or you could just use Data.Sequence and brows the code at your later  
leisure, right? Better yet, you could forget about optimal  
datastructures until you learned how to do toy problems with just  
plain lists.

--S

On Oct 14, 2007, at 2:12 PM, Brian Hurt wrote:

> And the situation is worse with pure functional languages.  When  
> you move from, say C/Pascal/Fortran to Java/Ruby/Python, you don't  
> have to learn new data structures and new algorithms.  A doubly  
> linked list is still just a doubly linked list, still has the same  
> properties, and still has more or less the same implementation.  In  
> addition to learning Haskell, you also need to relearn basic  
> computer science.  You need to learn what a realtime lazy catenable  
> dequeue is, how to implement it, and why you need one, all the  
> while struggling with the syntax, type errors, and all the other  
> problems trying to learning a new language.