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"The only difference between programming and games is that games have win conditions."

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[–] raubarno@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Haskell isn't really that hard to learn. It's just changing the paradigm, that takes a mind shift for the first two weeks, maybe a month.

I don't play games that much to make such comparisons, though.

[–] TheChurn@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haskell isn't really that hard to learn

A monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a little category theory never hurt anyone :)

[–] JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gorillions of set theorists are dead, and you have the gall to tell me that it never hurt anyone?

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

the set theorists were already in pain. category theory freed them from their suffering

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i agree. haskell is worth learning because its cool, and the skills/concepts are transferrable, not because the language is in demand

[–] B0rax@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So like dungeons and Dragons then

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It inspired much, but whoever knows all the rules?