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		tasuki on Oct 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any ot... Of course it's harsh! But perhaps also true?

AnimalMuppet on Oct 7, 2019 [–]

Or perhaps not so true.

I believe (based on exactly zero hard data) that FP fits the way some peoples' minds work, and procedural fits how other (many more) peoples' minds work. The ability to pass a Haskell class is not the same as the ability to program competently in at least one language.

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