It's a language that forced its way into the fields by Sun/Oracle throwing money at it. Nobody actually loves Java except people who don't know better and universities. Universities love it because Oracle pays them to teach it.
Why is Haskell a mathematicians language?
Joseph Perez
Zachary Lopez
What languages should universities be teaching intro and intermediate programming in instead? My university uses Java for both to teach OOP.
Easton Young
Universities don't like Java either, but they accept that the vast majority of their CS students are going to work in the software industry. Putting out a resume that reads
>experience 2 undergrad projects. Can only code in Common Lisp
is not a good idea.
William Davis
OP confirmed for not knowing what the hell he's talking about. After 20 years, Haskell is still an experimental language that is barely suitable for fizzbuzz.
Blake Adams
>Haskell is like Erlang (forced to work with), there's no fucking need for it
Same way there is no fucking need for javascript but choose to do you webdev using it anyway instead of hippie shit like elixir. There are reasons why people choose to code in erlang and it's because it provides a type of thread safety similar to the hipster language called Pony.
Haskell is a meme because even though you don't have states in functional programming, trying to avoid states is really hard.
Aaron Martinez
You could suggest Wolfram Mathematica aswell which wolfram alpha is using.
Anthony Nguyen
>instead of hippie shit like elixir
How is it hippie?
>Why is Haskell a superior language?
It is not.
>Why are boot camp and web devs scared of it?
They aren't scared. 20 years of Haskell has produced virtually no real useful programs, libraries, or APIs.
It is a joke, little more than a theory language for CS graduates to circlejerk over.
Samuel Wilson
The ^ operand is not powered to operand.
seq= [x**2 for x in range(5)]
will give you what you expected.
Carson Young
Well for now it is hipster.
But I demonstrated that Elixir has some similarity with erlang. Looking att programs written in erlang you will see that their uptime is very impressive.
Alexander Martinez
Yes, evidently, but what is that operation then?