I spent 2-4 weeks really trying hard to learn Haskell and I loved it. But when I tried to make something practical with it, I got so frustrated with its dependency manager (cabal) and its lack of support for Windows that I dropped it for Clojure.
I love Clojure's ecosystem, its ability to use any Java library, and its (lack of) syntax.
But I really miss the language features of Haskell. I think Clojure lets you get away with a lot of imperative style programming. You can have a function deep down in the bowels of your code perform side effects if you want. Haskell makes you define these in one place and forces you to separate it from the rest of your code (at least that's what the beginners books led me to believe).
A language that combines the benefits of both sounds like a dream.
I spent 2-4 weeks really trying hard to learn Haskell and I loved it. But when I tried to make something practical with it, I got so frustrated with its dependency manager (cabal) and its lack of support for Windows that I dropped it for Clojure.
I love Clojure's ecosystem, its ability to use any Java library, and its (lack of) syntax.
But I really miss the language features of Haskell. I think Clojure lets you get away with a lot of imperative style programming. You can have a function deep down in the bowels of your code perform side effects if you want. Haskell makes you define these in one place and forces you to separate it from the rest of your code (at least that's what the beginners books led me to believe).
A language that combines the benefits of both sounds like a dream.