[Haskell-cafe] Why Haskell is beautiful to the novice

[Alberto G. Corona]

I think that Haskell has a lot of accidental complexity in many areas.
There is a kind of pseudo-mathematical cargo cult that make some problems
artificially difficult.

2015-08-28 23:43 GMT+02:00 Francesco Ariis <fa-ml at ariis.it>:

> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 12:26:04AM +0300, Kosyrev Serge wrote:
> > Now, how is this different from a comparison of the amount of effort
> > spent on the relevant libraries?
> >
> > ..where the difference is still enormous, like multiple orders of
> magnitude.
>
> That's exactly the point (amusingly illustrated in this comic [1]).
>
> I must say the suggestion to use `diagrams` (made by Tikhon Jelvis)
> makes really sense: it's fun, it's easy/quick to set up, it's powerful.
>
>
> [1]
> http://gaspull.geeksaresexytech.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/essays.png
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-- 
Alberto.
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