John Goerzen on Why You Should Learn Haskell
January 17th, 2009 by Don Stewart
In a recent interview with O’Reilly, John Goerzon explained how Real World Haskell came to be, the special magic which makes Haskell worth learning, and how to change your mindset to make learning possible.
Read the full interview.
Haskell is worth learning just to experience this very special and unique feeling: that programming is a more safe journey, not limited in expressivity by narrow restrictions, nor by fear of code reorganizations. Such a good place to be. “I can confidently do this” rather than “oh my! what unexpected things will I uncover by changing this..”.
And not limited by precision all the way down either by the way: your chapter on optimization and compiler rules is so thrilling!!
Thanks *so much* for your book!