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Questions about Haskell, which is an advanced, pure, strongly typed, lazy functional language.
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A programming language that does not allow IO. Haskell is not a pure language
(I asked this on Stack Overflow and it got closed as off-topic, I was a bit confused until I read the FAQ, which discouraged subjective theoratical debate style questions. The FAQ here doesn't seem to ...
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Is Haskell's type system an obstacle to understanding functional programming?
I'm studying Haskell for the purpose of understanding functional programming, with the expectation that I'll apply the insight that I gain in other languages (Groovy, Python, JavaScript mainly.)
I ...
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what is the purpose of arrows?
I am learning functionnal programming with Haskell, and I try to grab concepts by first understanding why do I need them.
I would like to know the goal of arrows in functional programming languages. ...
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what is the object oriented counterpart to haskell / coq
I have detailed information on the latest developments in functional programming.
I think haskell is quite an advanced and high level programming language. With coq and agda this gets even more ...
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Haskell GUI: how much can be done with Haskell?
I've been wanting to try out graphics in Haskell. From what I've seen, the available libraries are either front-ends to C/C++ libraries, or an abstraction of them with minimal features. The high-level ...
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Is Haskell worth learning?
I am looking at this question primarily from a career point of view, so I hope you answer it accordingly.
I am fairly proficient with Python, can write C++ and I am a final year student of computer ...
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What kind of things are easy in Haskell and hard in Scala, and vice versa?
There has been some intermingling of Scala and Haskell communities, and I have noticed now and then people commenting on stuff that's supposed to be easy in Haskell and hard and Scala. Less often ...
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Hard Time Learning Haskell
Just to give a quick background I'm 18 years old, going to college this fall, started programming when I was in middle school. I made the decision to hold up on development for one of my Web projects ...
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Haskell AND Lisp vs. Haskell OR Lisp
I currently code with C, C++, and Python. I'm wanting to pick up a functional programming language, and right now I'm leaning toward Haskell. I do NOT want to start a "Haskell vs Lisp" war here; what ...
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Is using F# good enough for learning the important functional programming concepts of Haskell?
I'm coming from Linux and Ruby. I've been interested in learning more functional programming, and in particular the ML-ish style. I've tried reading through the Real World Haskell book and trying some ...
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How should someone used to FP thinking read imperative code?
I graduated from university about five months ago, and have been working in a local startup for past four months. While at university, I studied Haskell, F# etc on my own. We were taught Java at the ...
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Why do some functional languages need software transactional memory?
Functional languages, by definition, should not maintain state variables. Why, then, do Haskell, Clojure, and others provide software transactional memory (STM) implementations? Is there a conflict ...
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Is return-type-(only)-polymorphism in Haskell a good thing?
One thing that I've never quite come to terms with in Haskell is how you can have polymorphic constants and functions whose return type cannot be determined by their input type, like
class Foo a ...
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STDOUT and its impurity
I've read a lot of books and articles about functional programming and still ashamed of not being able to understand for sure some very basic concepts.
One of the main ideas of functional programming ...
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What should I understand before I try to understand functional programming?
I've been Learning Me A Haskell For Great Good because I thought it looked interesting. Of course, I'm completely sold on the idea that functional programming will end world hunger, bring about world ...
