Learning Haskell makes you a better programmer?

[Russel Winder]

On Tue, 2012-12-25 at 21:50 +0100, SomeDude wrote:
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> 
> As for being a better programmer after having used some advanced 
> concepts, I don't know. I think every feature of a language must 
> be used where appropriate. I've seen some Python code using 
> heavily map/filter/etc that was simply unreadable to me. In some 
> places, I find  it easier to understand for loops, while in other 
> cases, using functional style programming conveys the intent 
> better. But maybe that's just me.

Code using map/filter/reduce requires a specific reading strategy, which
is fine for people coming from Lisp/Clojure/Haskell/OCaml/Groovy/Ruby
but difficult for people coming from C, assembly language, Java, etc. C
++ and D are treading a middle ground.

BDFL has stated that list/dictionary/set comprehensions are to be
preferred over functional chaining constructs. In general this is good
advice, even for languages other than Python.

-- 
Russel.
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