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Jul 19 2017 06:18pm
My company is changing our stack to almost a fully functional stack and I've never worked with functional languages before.

We are using Haskell for the backend and Elm for the front end for our web apps.
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Jul 19 2017 07:24pm
My advice: quit
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Jul 19 2017 09:13pm
Quote (Mastersam93 @ Jul 19 2017 08:24pm)
My advice: quit



lol, great advice?
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Jul 19 2017 10:48pm
haskell? I'd rather eat cereal with cat piss than code with that shit
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Jul 19 2017 11:03pm
Get familiar with anonymous functions, higher-order functions, recursive data types, etc.

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Jul 20 2017 01:45am
Why are they doing this exactly? Did some exec hear about the functional language and decided "yep thats it, we're rewriting entire thing"? Or do you actually have many people already experienced?

Haskell is an awesome language, but if the decision is taken lightly it will explode in your faces. Especially that it's not very easy language compared to others, even to other functional like Lisp. Either way, just start with http://learnyouahaskell.com/

This post was edited by nuvo on Jul 20 2017 01:47am
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Jul 20 2017 02:43pm
Haskell is a nightmare to code with.
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Quote (bvanharjr @ Jul 20 2017 01:43pm)
Haskell is a nightmare to code with.


why?
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Jul 24 2017 12:52pm
JavaScript. Functional Programming at its best.
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Quote (essxivxx @ Jul 24 2017 11:52am)
JavaScript. Functional Programming at its best.


javascript is a turd of a language for anything but simplest things. And even then you'll usually want coffeescript or something

two words: callback hell.

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