Timeline for What's Your Method of not forgetting the end brackets, parentheses
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| Jan 3, 2011 at 23:16 | comment | added | Orbling | @Josh K: Well the benefits of strong-typing do show themselves nicely in Haskell. I've been working in non-typed languages for such a long time now, I tend to find typing a bit of an inconvenience. | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 21:44 | comment | added | Josh K | @Orbling: I've done a lot of JavaScript (and jQuery) and that's mainly what turned me on to other functional programming languages. I like Haskell because it's strongly typed, something I miss from JAva in other languages. | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 21:35 | comment | added | Orbling | @Frank Shearar: Never used it myself, though it looks awesome, haskell-mode always sufficed (although I used to use hugs-mode mainly)! I never get tired of looking at elisp code when done well, looks so pretty: github.com/chrisdone/shime/blob/master/shime.el | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 21:31 | comment | added | Frank Shearar | @Orbling :) I did try get SHIME working, and then got stuck and was distracted by something else. I'd like to give it another go at some stage. | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 21:30 | comment | added | Orbling | @Josh K: Ooh, never used Snap - will look in to that. So many things are worth learning it's very hard to list anything in particular. From a career perspective, most interfaces seem to be moving to the web and most web-interfaces seem to be getting entirely dynamic, so I think jQuery (as the dominant client-side framework) is becoming very useful. Particularly as it has a very fluid functional style within javascript, so it exposes the functional paradigm nicely - which is gaining great traction at long last. | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 21:25 | comment | added | Orbling | @Frank Shearer: As in emacs haskell-mode? ;-) | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 21:23 | comment | added | Josh K | @Frank: That looks great, I appreciate the link. | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 20:57 | comment | added | Frank Shearar | Oh, and LYAH rocks, for a complete newbie: learnyouahaskell.com | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 20:56 | comment | added | Frank Shearar | Haskell's whitespace thing doesn't seem intrusive, to this newbie at least. Mostly haskell-mode just does whatever it does; I only became aware that there was an actual whitespace syntax (some things have to line up vertically) accidentally, while reading some tutorial or other. | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 19:40 | comment | added | Josh K | @Orbling: I'm looking at Snap since I'm most familiar with some sort of web based development (though did a lot of Java as well). Anything else you recommend for learning? | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 19:32 | comment | added | Orbling | @Josh K: It does use spacing, but the code style is so different the feel of it and purpose is somewhat different. You'll experience it at some point I'm sure. It's a good language to learn. | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 19:30 | comment | added | Josh K | @Orbling: I can tell I think Haskell is interesting (functional, strict) however if it does use the same block indentation then I would be disappointed. | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 19:22 | comment | added | Orbling | @Josh K: Righto. I always found it clean, but can be annoying if you use real tabs rather than spaces. | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 19:15 | comment | added | Josh K | @Orbling: I have barely begun to look at Haskell, much less be able to tell if it's good or not. | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 19:14 | comment | added | Orbling | @Josh K: Haskell uses indentation like that as well, is it better there, or always bad? | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 19:12 | comment | added | Josh K | @Will: A XKCD comic (while awesome) is not evidence to a language's benefits. I love Python, but if I could change one thing it would be the indentation scope. | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 19:08 | comment | added | Will | @Josh K yes it does. xkcd.com/353 | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 18:56 | comment | added | Josh K | @Will: Forcing you to adopt a particular style of indentation (and an inconsistent one at that) does not make a language great. | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 17:24 | comment | added | Orbling | @JMC Creative: Thought you may well have done. ;-) | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 17:23 | comment | added | JakeParis | "incorrectly matched" .. Oh, I just did that to prove my point. :) | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 17:22 | comment | added | Will | That's why python is great, it forces you to indent and all the programs look similar. | |
| Jan 3, 2011 at 17:20 | history | answered | Orbling | CC BY-SA 2.5 |