Maybe you're not ready to leave C++, but if you don't have a slightly icky feeling from C++ compared to Haskell, then you've been programming C++ for so long that the weirdness has metabolized.
This is exactly what I am talking about, I'm "not ready to leave C++".
C++ certainly has it's faults, and some of them are quite painful. However, I find there are things I can do nicer in Haskell than C++, but some jobs call for an XORed linked list, or implementing trailing by knowing my underlying types are C and just calling memcpy, and I can't do that in Haskell.
At http://minisat.se/ , you will find Minisat, an (in my opinion) neat, easy to read(ish) and highly efficient C++ program. I've seen numerous people try to turn it into Haskell and all they have ended up with is something less readable, and much slower.
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Maybe you're not ready to leave C++, but if you don't have a slightly icky feeling from C++ compared to Haskell, then you've been programming C++ for so long that the weirdness has metabolized.
Errr... perhaps you meant metastasized? Or solidified/ossified?
I think if it had metabolized, that would mean your body had burnt up the weirdness and gotten rid of it.
This is exactly what I am talking about, I'm "not ready to leave C++".
C++ certainly has it's faults, and some of them are quite painful. However, I find there are things I can do nicer in Haskell than C++, but some jobs call for an XORed linked list, or implementing trailing by knowing my underlying types are C and just calling memcpy, and I can't do that in Haskell.
At http://minisat.se/ , you will find Minisat, an (in my opinion) neat, easy to read(ish) and highly efficient C++ program. I've seen numerous people try to turn it into Haskell and all they have ended up with is something less readable, and much slower.