[Haskell-cafe] Object Oriented programming for Functional Programmers

[Kim-Ee Yeoh]

There's OOHaskell, which you can google for. The name's such a nice example
of an aptronym: it's the Overlooked Object-oriented Haskell.

-- Kim-Ee


On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Daniel Díaz Casanueva <
dhelta.diaz at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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