Learning Haskell makes you a better programmer?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, December 27, 2012 02:22:44 bearophile wrote:
> Simen Kjaeraas:
> > Absolutely. But whether purity should be the default or not is
> > orthogonal to this.
> > 
> > I would have preferred opt-out purity to opt-in, but it's not
> > exactly make or break.
> 
> The colourful Erik Meijer says that specifying what functions are
> not pure is better than specifying what functions are pure:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0N1aZ6SnBk#t=54m53s

It probably would be better for stuff like @safe and pure to be the default, 
but it's far too late for that now, regardless of how good an idea it would 
have been. Live and learn.

- Jonathan M Davis