Look at the git and tell me. One guy, contributing 1.5m lines of code is not human made. It’s a matter of time before it falls apart and becomes unmaintainable.
It’s a slop project.
My students who did Haskell last year all passed with flying colors. I think the examples above are plenty clear, and the students also found them clear after I explained them, and with enough practice it wasn’t an in issue. I read the literature, practice it, and then use my teaching skills to teach it. It’s my job, and I take pride in what I do.
I’d say maybe the hypothetical you just needs a good teacher to show how it’s done, or the hypothetical student needs to read it enough till you understand it. In math we also have symbols, in math we also use shorthands. Why not in compsci?
Bar that, Haskell is just not a language that’s suited as a first language. The literature expects from you to be able to understand technical manuals. You don’t go teaching Rust to 8th graders, you don’t go learning Haskell without knowing at least what currying means.
As for brackets, you’re free to put them wherever you want; the professional are also free to do what they want, and it’s usually a good idea to adhere to a standard.
Because if you don’t write it this way, then it’s not lisp. I would recommend you to read PG’s essay: On Lisp, and (a hard read) SICP.
As for Haskell, I am a teacher and I teach Haskell. I use Learn you a Haskell and Haskell programming from first principles. Haskell and Lisp are languages that by nature pull CS and math wizards. So is the documentation also written in that way. Hoogle is still one of the best sources of documentation.
So if lisp wasn’t lisp, you’d like it? 😂 you might want to take a look at Rhombus, or even Haskell.
I will never not post this picture on this subject. Skimmed through the article, seems well written and will read it later.
Edit: did read it through, and don’t necessarily agree. I don’t think about any of this when writing lisp code. Emacs deals with my parens, as does paredit and structural editing. This discussion ignores the things that makes lisp work: s-expressions. By changing this main feature, one destroys lisps best feature.
lol I made some yesterday as well!
Slop project, not sustainable. Matrix is the way.
Eh. In winter I wear my wool fedora. Rest of the year I wear flatcaps as smart casual, snapbacks with street style or my Tilly when I’m up and about outside the city.
Meanwhile Haskell:
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Two commits today, presumably after this merge you talk about, +12k, -27k. In one day. You think humans can do that? Yesterday, 22 commits and I opened a random one: +15k, -9k. Just put this supposed human effort into an actual standard like Matrix instead of vibing your own.