Learning Haskell makes you a better programmer?

[Russel Winder]

On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 10:53 +0100, deadalnix wrote:
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> It depends what you mean by functional. It seems to me that 
> you'll find 2 major things that are usually understood as 
> functionnal :
>   - abstraction based on first class function. javascript is the 
> perfect example here, and is functional.
>   - purity and immutability.

In the most recent "Open Source Journal", Uncle Bob has stated that all
you need to say is "no assignment" and you end up having to invent
functional programming.

> If you have no tools to enforce immutability, you need to 
> completely break abstraction to get the benefit. This is bug 
> prone and will not scale (without abstraction nothing big is 
> achievable).

I am not sure what you mean by "break abstraction" here. Nor how you get
to "will not scale". Can you elaborate?  Thanks.
-- 
Russel.
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