[FP/Haskell] So who here has tried Haskell (or Functional Programming in general)?

[ReidE96]

Haskell is a functional programming language. What does this mean? It's heavily based around functions and maths. Haskell in particular draws from lambda calculus a lot. It's the language we're getting first at uni, and I found out recently that our lecturer is in fact the creator. Which is always good.

Anyway, it's pretty easy to get a handle of, and functional programming languages have a lot of space to expand. Microsoft are releasing one called F# in the next Visual Studio, or so I hear.

So, has anyone else used it before?

[Apoc]

F# is already available.

Also; PHP is a psuedo-functional/pseudo-OO language. Personally; I hate functional languages. But that's just me.

[Robske]

had it in the Applied Formal Logics course, first bachelor Informatics at Ghent uni.

I didn't like the language. Lamba expressions in C# however... nomnomnom

[ReidE96]

Well, I'm learning fun little things in Haskell. Some of the tutorial work serves no meaningful purpose outside of learning, but the other day we made a mail spider. Well, not really a spider, you handed it the url. But still, good times.