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Obviously you've never met Haskell.

And if you hit the reply button and say that you have, then I demand to see code samples.



nay, not Haskell. F# though (using it right now on a small app that i plan on selling, hopefully it makes me enough money to support my starbucks addiction.) actually i've been meaning to play around with Haskell because it has a lot of succinct thingies with currying and whatnot, and i plan on making an experimental language or two eventually. generally though, strongly typed languages are painful for me. that is, painful to use, not painful to learn :)

one paradigm i've yet to try out is the "goal-oriented" languages a la Prolog. i'll get to them

my point isn't about me though, despite how great i am. i just think that thinking about languages as if they were huge monoliths isn't the best way of thinking about them, because it will hurt your ability to try out new languages and perspectives. they are things that you should revel in, not keep away from because they seem daunting




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