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> To be fair, learning a new language is a joke. It doesn't require a substantial investment of time. I think that rather depends on the language and your past
by sanityinc 12y ago
> To be fair, learning a new language is a joke. It doesn't require a substantial investment of time.
I think that rather depends on the language and your past experience. Most programmers with experience in mainstream languages will indeed require a substantial investment of time to learn a radically different language like Haskell.
- valarauca1 12y ago>radically different But swift isn't radically different paradigm shift like switching to a purely functional language like Haskell from a life spent writting c++. I think your confusing learning functional programming with learning a "functional programming language." The "functional" part takes longer then the "programming lanague" part.
- sanityinc 12y agoI didn't say anything about Swift: rather, I was responding to the parent's overly general assertion.