Skip to content

Comment on Pedagogical Downsides of Haskellparent

Comments

Haskell's abstractions build on the inherently stateful nature of computers – how do you think Haskell compilers do their job?

(Not to mention that Haskell and its base libraries have plenty of abstractions useful also for the programmer to deal with the inherently stateful nature of computers, e.g. the IO type, STM, State (it's in the name!), Channels, etc.)

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.