peterfoldi

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by peterfoldi 10y ago
NaN is not equal to NaN by the IEEE 754 standard. JavaScript, and many other modern languages, implement floating point numbers by this standard. E.g. in C#: > 0.0/0.0 == Double.NaN false
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by peterfoldi 11y ago
Too late to edit. I meant this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbLVvrb2-fY
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by peterfoldi 11y ago
And this is my favourite tutorial so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDR433b0HJY I think it explains everything in 80 minutes.
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by peterfoldi 13y ago
> I think that saying you can 'learn Haskell in a week' is really short sighted. You can learn to parse a Haskell program and write a guess-the-number program in a week, but learning how to write good Haskell is going to take m
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by peterfoldi 13y ago
Very pragmatic approach. C# if you are ok with the Microsoft stack, or F# if you are a bit more advantageous and serious about the "new way of thinking". Python is also a great investment to solve real-world problems. And don&#x27
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by peterfoldi 13y ago
I agree with you that it is everybody's own decision :) Although from a slightly philosophical point of view: how can one determine what levels are beyond their own knowledge, let alone what amount of effort it would take for them to g
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by peterfoldi 13y ago
I am looking forward to that experience :) Besides the technical reasons (nice syntax, pure fp, strong typing, ...) I chose Haskell to learn functional programming because it has a very good community and documentation. It's like the e
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by peterfoldi 13y ago
You have more experience here thanks for correcting me :) What I meant was that they are not two very different worlds. I myself picked Haskell over Lisp hoping to gain the benefits that I would get from Lisp but with some advantages. Would
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by peterfoldi 13y ago
You have Lisp knowledge, so maybe Haskell is not the best candidate for "a new way you think". Given your background I would say you probably would enjoy Scala more than Java (targeting the same JVM). I am not sure if one can lear
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by peterfoldi 13y ago
I friend recommended Elixir to me, but I would rather learn Erlang properly. Erlang has a small community already, why to learn a language targeting Erlang VM that has even smaller community and much less documentation?
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Ask HN: What programming language will you learn in 2014?
24 points by peterfoldi 13y ago|49 comments