Functional Programming

I love it. Haskell is by far my favorite language. Anyone else tried it or do it?

 

I poked around F# a bit out of curiosity...Didn't like it. We'll be doing Haskell next year in my degree program. Not looking forward to it

 

I had to google this, looks kind of terrible to try and lean...

 

Hit me up if you need help. I hated it at first until I went back to it. You can to think about issues in a completely different way. But map and folds are fucking awesome.

 

Check out Clojure. Recently learnt it at my internship. Hated it first. Then found it out how amazing functional languages can be.

 

I <3 Haskell!

Its like writing out math!

I thought I'd always be a Python-masterrace person, but not anymore!

 

Same with me and Haskell. Hated it until I kept doing it.

It really is. I am a Haskell master race sort of person now.

 

It seems like a hassle to learn at first, but it really changes the way you think about stuff. Like whenever I do python now I just think "Why doesn't this have a very convenient takeWhile" etc etc.

Also the annotations are really nice.

 

Yes. It is a whole different way of looking at problems. I also hate for loops now. Iterators are also stupid. Map is the the way of the future.

 

Haskell's fun if you're good at math.
It's just weird to me, compared to other things.

 

>inb4 iterate is a function in haskell

Code:

f x 
    | even x = x/2
    | odd x = (x*3) + 1

take 5 . iterate f $ 23

lel (inb4 code doesn't work - I haven't run this).

But yes, I agree with you.

 

They have their place but I find map much more useful.

 

yeah, me too. I really like how you can use map to construct types and currying functions etc instead of just applying a function to a list of values.

 

Yea. Abstracting away what a for loop essentially does is epic. It allows you to do such powerful stuff. Monads are another great example. Abstract shit enough and it all fits a very similar mold.

 

I've only ever done java, js, html, php. Read of functional but never got into it

 

You can use underscore.js to write JS in a more functional way.

 

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I wouldn't know off the top of my head. You can look at this source: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.7.0.1/docs/src/Data-List.html#permutations

It seems kinda ugly but that is in the GHC standard library.