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1 month agoRaymond’s document does not, and I believe never has, mentioned Haskell.
I also disagree with him, given that it does recommend Java, but the quote is correct.
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The only things on the bad list that I agree with are top-level type inference and small communities. And ocamls windows support is terrible. Haskell’s is more than ok now.
In Haskell, any style guide worth its salt requires annotations on top level functions, and many of them also require annotations on local bindings. This pretty effectively works around the problem.
Bad code will be unreadable in any language of course. But the other things don’t themselves make code unreadable once you’re actually familiar with the language and its ecosystem.
I don’t need syntax highlighting for that in Haskell either. My usual highlighting just leaves them both in the default text color.
And I’m specifically arguing that the other things on your list do not inherently make code bad.