Learning Haskell/Python makes you a worse C# programmer

I think the author is simply inexperienced in C#. Here's the right way to express his code: string.Join("\n", from elem in myList where elem.Description != "" select elem.Description); Note how mind-numbingly close this is to the Python: "\n".join(foo.description() for foo in mylist if foo.description() != "") I also think it's considerably easier to read than the foreach loop.

I know exactly how he feels. This is basically the experience I had when I moved from Python to functional languages and it finally "clicked" how much more productive I could be in a Lisp or an ML. Where I differ somewhat is that for me, it saved programming as I knew it. I wouldn't be a programmer right now if it weren't for discovering Lisps and MLs. I fecking hated writing spaghetti OOP and tedious imperative loops. Mainstream programming…

This programmer can't code with taking the constraints of the program's environment into consideration. After learning an unrelated programming language he isn't able to write idiomatic code in a different programming language with a different paradigms. That's like being depressed when wanting to curse in English as the Russian curse words are much better but when translating them into English, they lose a lot of their appeal. This programmer should learn that you shouldn't fight the basic premises of a…

Since RiderOfGiraffes is not around any more, I'll point out that this has been on HN a couple of times before, with some interesting discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883663 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=407796 I'm still sympathetic to the author's plight because my experiences have been similar. After learning Python and Haskell (and Clojure) and then returning to Java, I find myself missing features like first class functions and list comprehensions and so on. It's hard coming to terms with…