Промежуточный итог месячного интеллектуального запоя
Возможно, некоторые заметили, что я куда-то пропал. Приношу свои извинения, ибо мало ел, мало спал и вообще... Короче, был в запое. Подведу промежуточный итог украденной фразой:
Let me start by being perfectly clear: if you are a professional programmer, then Haskell is in your future.
In 1987, this statement would have been equally true about Smalltalk. Today, 20 years later, object-oriented programming, class hierarchies, model-view-controller patterns, and other ideas from Smalltalk are now commonplace, even though Smalltalk never saw widespread adoption.
Haskell is in a similar situation today. It is an esoteric language, yet stable and reliable enough for serious work. Perhaps you will learn Haskell, or even use Haskell on a real-world project. Even if you don't, ideas from Haskell are slowly finding their way into mainstream languages like Java, C#, C++, Perl, Python, and Ruby. Haskell is poised to have a strong influence over the next 20 years of programming and language design, just as Smalltalk has had an influence during the last 20 years.
Let me start by being perfectly clear: if you are a professional programmer, then Haskell is in your future.
In 1987, this statement would have been equally true about Smalltalk. Today, 20 years later, object-oriented programming, class hierarchies, model-view-controller patterns, and other ideas from Smalltalk are now commonplace, even though Smalltalk never saw widespread adoption.
Haskell is in a similar situation today. It is an esoteric language, yet stable and reliable enough for serious work. Perhaps you will learn Haskell, or even use Haskell on a real-world project. Even if you don't, ideas from Haskell are slowly finding their way into mainstream languages like Java, C#, C++, Perl, Python, and Ruby. Haskell is poised to have a strong influence over the next 20 years of programming and language design, just as Smalltalk has had an influence during the last 20 years.