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Programming requires breadth of knowledge

Programming requires breadth of knowledge

Is learning Haskell about tackling Big Ideas?

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Chris Martin
May 26, 2023
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For readers who haven’t figured it out already, my shtick is arguing that the pragmatic experience of Haskell doesn’t have to be substantially different from any other language. Here I want to combat the notion that learning Haskell is primarily about grasping some hard core concepts.

Folks seem to expect and perhaps want the language to have a few Deep …

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