[Haskell-cafe] Object Oriented programming for Functional Programmers

[MigMit]

Sorry for the stupid mistake — when I said "Daniel" in the previous message, I've meant "Jay".

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30.12.2012, в 23:58, Daniel Díaz Casanueva <dhelta.diaz at gmail.com> написал(а):

> Hello, Haskell Cafe folks.
> 
> My programming life (which has started about 3-4 years ago) has always been in the functional paradigm. Eventually, I had to program in Pascal and Prolog for my University (where I learned Haskell). I also did some PHP, SQL and HTML while building some web sites, languages that I taught to myself. I have never had any contact with JavaScript though. 
> 
> But all these languages were in my life as secondary languages, being Haskell my predominant preference. Haskell was the first programming language I learned, and subsequent languages never seemed so natural and worthwhile to me. In fact, every time I had to use another language, I created a combinator library in Haskell to write it (this was the reason that brought me to start with the HaTeX library). Of course, this practice wasn't always the best approach.
> 
> But, why I am writing this to you, haskellers?
> 
> Well, my curiosity is bringing me to learn a new general purpose programming language. Haskellers are frequently comparing Object-Oriented languages with Haskell itself, but I have never programmed in any OO-language! (perhaps this is an uncommon case) I thought it could be good to me (as a programmer) to learn C/C++. Many interesting courses (most of them) use these languages and I feel like limited for being a Haskell programmer. It looks like I have to learn imperative programming (with side effects all over around) in some point of my programming life.
> 
> So my questions for you all are:
> 
> * Is it really worthwhile for me to learn OO-programming?
> 
> * If so, where should I start? There are plenty of "functional programming for OO programmers" but I have never seen "OO programming for functional programmers".
> 
> * Is it true that learning other programming languages leads to a better use of your favorite programming language?
> 
> * Will I learn new programming strategies that I can use back in the Haskell world?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your kind responses,
> Daniel Díaz.
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