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#75 Haskell "Not as Scary as You Think" with Kris Jenkins

Happy Path Programming

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Functional Programming and Haskell

Blake: I like functional programming for me is the pinnacle of what I've done in programming for probably like almost three decades now or something. It took a long time for me to kind of get it from a traditional Java background. He says Haskell, at least from that side of his experience in Scala, was always seen as like the golden standard for functional programming. Blake: Historically, God, there's a lot to unpack him what you've just said. We don't write languages for the sake of style but because we want them to be easy on humans.

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