It seems like all my Python friends are playing around with Haskell lately, so it's been on my mind a lot lately. Since I'm a language guy, Haskell has always fascinated me. I wrote my first article on Haskell in 2006 ( Everything Your Professor Failed to Tell You About Functional Programming ), and I think it's a beautiful, interesting, awe-inspiring language. However, I've never really achieved full mastery of it. Since I've been thinking about it a lot lately, I thought I'd share some of my thoughts: Haskell is well known for being very concise. The functionality / lines of code ratio is very good. However, if I compare Haskell code to Python code, one thing is clear to me. Haskell squeezes in a lot more function calls per line of code than Python does. We have this idea in programming that the number of lines of code that a programmer can write in a given time period is relatively constant regardless of language. However, in my experience, I can write l
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