Learning Haskell makes you a better programmer?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/26/12 9:42 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> 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?

Yah, but not tail calls. (That should be on the list...)

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

Only for immutable data.


Andrei