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		Periodic on April 16, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Haskell: It’s like Klingon, but with math I meant "not necessarily to program in". E.g. it's not going to be something you use all the time. The sad fact is that a lot of existing code and companies use fairly safe languages like C and Java, but simply knowing how to think about functional programming will help you out with all your programming, no matter the language.

banned_man on April 17, 2009 [–]

I'm curious why you consider C to be safe but Haskell not. Seeing as C has no bounds checking on arrays, runtime type-checking, or garbage collection, I'm tempted to argue to the contrary.

science4sail on April 17, 2009 | [–]

I'm guessing that Periodic means "safe" in terms of popularity and visibility, not ease of programming.

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