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POV: You're a programmer (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

But oh boy is it difficult. We started with Haskell in the first semester CS and it was a pain. Kudos to anyone seriously developing in Haskell.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Eh, it's just different. Other languages are hard in other ways. Haskell's at least have very good reason behind them.

    I write Haskell professionally and and am teaching to people without any experience, and it's really no different than anything else. Though I will say that my experience is that university professors are often pretty clueless about the language and don't teach it well.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    I think it's the paradigm change. Most people including myself learnt some kind of procedural language in school, shifting towards functional thinking is just very difficult. But of course that's a skill a computer scientist must have and one of the reasons I didn't graduate.

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