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0 pointsbenreesman4y ago0 comments

See a problem, realize it’s a graph, realize it’s traveling salesman, reduce it to 3SAT, and start grinding it out in MiniSAT before I can type “jupyter lab”.

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eru4y ago· 2 in thread

That's not particularly Haskell specific.

What's more Haskell specific is recognizing many problems can be solved easier when seen through the lens of parsers, interpreters and/or compilers.

Haskell's and the whole ML family of languages are great at writing parsers etc. In fact they were originally invented for implementing other languages.

CactusOnFire4y ago

I have always figured the appeal of Haskell, Clojure, et al., is to transpile your task and turn any software problem into your language of choice.

eru4y ago

Yes, though that's related, but not really want I wanted to say.

I meant that solving a problem in Haskell can often mean eg writing something a bit like a parser.

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