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Haskell and creative freedomAs mentioned in a post last week, my experience with functional programming is pretty much all Scheme. I've gone through the SICP lectures and I get it... I am wary of !, and I understand why avoiding assignement is a good idea. After starting The Haskell School of Expression, I am curious as to people's visceral reaction to Haskell being a purely functional language. Do you find Haskell's approach creatively cumbersome at times? The feel I get from Haskell is that everything you program requires something "clever" in order to express it in a functional manner. Is that just my perception, is it a popular misnomer, or is it (even somewhat) true? I tend to sympathize with the kind of elitism that favors ideas that are "pure"... but can purity be an achiles heel? Why should I choose a language that denies me the understandibly dangerous power that accompanies assignment? What's "in it for me"? Is Haskell's type inference dependent upon assumptions about purity? Enlighten me, oh LtU gurus. By Nathan Sobo at 2005-09-09 01:35 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 16482 reads
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