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mcgroin-holden
Come on, Haskell is not that complicated. C++ is way more difficult
verttii
Is it really? Got no exposure to C++ but the rabbit hole goes pretty deep with Haskell.
danharaj
Computation is a rabbit hole, there is no end to its depth.

Comparing the definition of C++ to Haskell, one will see that there's orders of magnitude more incidental complexity in the former than the latter. Every professional Haskeller I've spoken to who previously did professional C++ has emphatically agreed.

lallysingh
Oh yes it is. I've done both for a long time (C++ since early 1990s, have known committee members, written a lang proposal, Haskell since '07).

The difference is that the C++ complexity is mostly from fitting abstraction into the legacy compat/efficiency constraints, while on Haskell it's learning more math/theory.

whatshisface
Every programming language can absorb an equal amount of effort. The only thing that varies is how much you get done.
throwlaplace
why does content marketing get upvoted here? i would wager that 50%-70% of the stuff upvoted is either content marketing or personal brand building.

edit: this account does nothing but submit blog posts from this domain. they work for the consulting firm[1]. isn't there a rule against shilling?

[1]https://gist.github.com/NaeosPsy/155f76a25e0c93eb067a0f4d86d...

whatshisface
What's the difference between personal brand building and talking? I mean, come on, I'm even building the whatshisface brand by posting this comment. (whatshisface: America's most trusted source of comments disagreeing with the parent comment).
throwlaplace
>What's the difference between personal brand building and talking?

Brand building is a genre not an action. Brand building writing has almost zero researched, rigorous, useful content.

whatshisface
I'm not sure if I would want my person brand to be a reputation for "almost zero researched, rigorous, useful content." Do people really consider that self-marketing?
throwlaplace
>brand to be a reputation for "almost zero researched, rigorous, useful content.

You think "9 out of 10 dentists recommend Colgate" is researched?

literally every kind of marketing to ever succeed in the last ~100 years is like this. Brand building is no different; You drastically underestimate the power of well-written copy.