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Care to elaborate a bit on that? Why is Haskell much more interesting?



I just meant it is more interesting to me right now. Scala is really interesting too, but I've been working with it longer. So its just relative to my current interests. I like being challenged to take a purely functional approach to problem solving.

One thing I like better about Haskell which is not time-bound to my own journey is that the language is so much cleaner and more concise. In functional programming it is idiomatic to compose lots of small functions that may be only a single (short) expression each. In Scala this may mean 20-40% of the characters in a line are simply type specifications for your function arguments. I find that oppressive.


One man's concision is another man's line noise:

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/13l9vj/getting_star...




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