And one language I’ve been warned about, though I’ve never had the opportunity to use it, is Haskell, an offshoot of ML. According to a friend in academia who’s studied it, it’s “the Taliban version of ML,” in which it’s all but impossible to write readable code.
He follows this with a line of intentionally hard-to-read code.
Everyone who is familiar with Haskell knows that it's possible to write code like this, but it's not common. You have to actually work at it to make truly awful code in Haskell or ML.
He follows this with a line of intentionally hard-to-read code.
Everyone who is familiar with Haskell knows that it's possible to write code like this, but it's not common. You have to actually work at it to make truly awful code in Haskell or ML.