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Lisp and Haskell (2017)

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Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
3
submitters
3
observed span
2018–2020
peak thread · 166 comments
200 pts
latest 20+ return · 2020-10-07
107 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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My problem with Haskell is that it is not pragmatic and the reason I stopped using it. The philosophy of separating pure and impure code – and to enforce it – does more harm than good. Often its difficult to understand what your "forth level of abstraction code" above the usual abstraction levels really does. Haskell is fun to learn. Haskell has a lot of interesting concepts to explore and it will make you a better programmer. Haskell code can…

thibran·200-point thread·

Just tried the code in SBCL and it definitely gives a compiler warning even without executing the function: This is SBCL 1.5.6, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp. More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>. SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty. It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under BSD-style licenses. See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the distribution for more information. * (defun add-text-padding (str &key padding newline)…

dunefox·107-point thread·

The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.

Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
310

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
317

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2018-07-15Lisp and Haskell (2017)First breakout · Best threadsridca200151
2019-12-07Lisp and Haskell (2017)phonebucket30
2020-10-07Lisp and Haskell (2015)Latest 20+ point returndunefox107166