I remember epiphanies seeing Smalltalk after years of C++.
You will never obtain a deep understanding of functional programming by using Scala. You'll simply never be able to think those thoughts, even though you are otherwise capable.
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Scala: * Functions are first-class (not really) * Types are inferred (not really) * Monad comprehensions (not really) * Free theorems and types (not really) * Type constructor polymorphism (not really) * Tail calls (not really) * Rank-n Types (not really) * … (not really)
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Having switched from Scala to Haskell and Idris, I can relate to this statement. There’s stuff that requires some additional boilerplate and hoop jumping in Scala that just works in Haskell (once you turn on a particular language extension)
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Scala, and most of its remaining users, is absolutely committed to the perpetual expert beginner philosophy. "As long as we look smart, improvement is not compelled."
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I feel your propaganda deep in my heart. However, do you prefer Scala/JVM or Python as a way to do work? Modeling and "data science" work is using python to foist its highly-imperative evil on otherwise good people. How can we fix this?
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I would love to see such thought/code or maybe a bunch of them :)
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Even just teaching the basics of FP in scala requires months of upfront apologetics. Haskell takes 90 minutes, repeatably demonstrated.
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