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Another thing to note: I learned functional programming using both Scheme and Haskell at about the same time (the former for a class and the latter for fun). I found that understanding recursion was much easier with Haskell's pattern-matching than with ifs and conds in Scheme, which I imagine also carries over to Clojure.

Tikhon Jelvis
– Tikhon Jelvis

2011-12-06 22:10:13 +00:00
Commented Dec 6, 2011 at 22:10
@Larry Coleman: +1 for describing precisely my own experience with types systems: first C++, then Ocaml, and now my own language Felix. Yes, I still refactor by chasing down compiler errors.

Yttrill
– Yttrill

2012-01-07 01:36:50 +00:00
Commented Jan 7, 2012 at 1:36

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