Learning Haskell makes you a better programmer?

[Russel Winder]

On Tue, 2012-12-25 at 11:37 -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> I've often heard that claim, but here's an article with what the substance is:
> 
> http://dubhrosa.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/lessons-learning-haskell.html?m=1
> 
> Note that D offers this style of programming, with checkable purity, 
> immutability and ranges. I think it is a very important paradigm.

Does D do tail recursion optimisation?

Can the D compiler check to enforce *NO* (or at the worst single)
assignment to a variable?

I am guessing that the D compilers can enforce referential transparency
and zero side-effects.

Functional programming is a good influence, but in it's Haskell form is
liable a minority language. Clojure could make Lisp a mainstream
language, but.. In the end the move to declarative expression and
internal rather than external iteration is a move all languages are
taking: C++, Python, D, Go, Java,..
-- 
Russel.
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