On the other hand, the language is already 35 years old and people still use it! Many other languages have died in the meantime.
replyI don't mean to sound elitist, but in a way, Haskell's difficulty is kind of the point of the language.
replyThe thing that's so elegant about Haskell is that it allows you to express programmatic constructs at a very abstract level. Abstraction is almost by definition difficult to grasp. That's why it takes a decade and a half for (most) people to go from arithmetic to calculus.
Difficulty is most certainly not the point. Abstraction, composability, yes, but difficulty is a language smell that CAN be fixed. (I love Haskell and it's my primary langauge, so this comes from a place of love).
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