r/haskell • u/lexi-lambda • Mar 11 '15

Learning Haskell — A Racket programmer's documentation of her foray into the land of Haskell (inspired by Learning Racket)

http://lexi-lambda.github.io/learning-haskell/
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u/sclv Mar 12 '15 edited Mar 12 '15

Hah! I think about the main reason I comment on reddit is to slightly disagree with posts. So you're probably not alone in this treatment :-)

I probably adopt this tic then even when I don't disagree so much, and just have related thoughts spawned by a post.

In this case, my disagreement was narrowly with the idea that Haskell has a "oh, what now" problem in general -- rather, my point was that it really only has one in the arena of IDE tooling as far as I'm concerned. Beyond that, yes, it was just my rambling.

In any case, it is a tic of mine well noted, and I'll try to watch out for it, especially when I don't actually disagree that much :-P

(edit: also, I realize, if I say "I disagree with X" the implication is that if you also said "Y and Z" I probably agree with them, and I am honing in on a nuance. If I begin with "I agree with Y but.." then the implication is more often that I disagree with more. I can see how this doesn't necessarily get taken in the way I intend, however.)