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18/11/2009

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12/11/2009

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One small meta-nit. Any experienced programmer can learn the basics of a familiar family (e.g., strongly-typed imperative languages) fairly quickly but it takes time to really understand a new language. Otherwise you get things like “Fortran in Ada” or “Pascal in C” code. shudder.

The consensus with coworkers is that it takes about 6 months to really understand a language (e.g., naturally using anonymous inner classes for java’s Comparator instead of writing a 2-line class that’s only used in one place), 2 years to really understand the standard libraries (official and de facto) to the point where you’re using the right classes and methods instead of just what you’re familiar with, and 5 years to reach the point where you know many of the secondary libraries, e.g., java’s jakarta common’s codec library.

It doesn’t surprise me that your view of Haskell has changed so much with more experience. But why does this seem to surprise you?

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