If Programming Languages Were Games [Comic] | Toggl Blog
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The only difference between programming and games is that games have win conditions. But if programming languages were games, which would be which?

“The only difference between programming and games is that games have win conditions.”

  • raubarno
    17•9 months ago

    Haskell isn’t really that hard to learn. It’s just changing the paradigm, that takes a mind shift for the first two weeks, maybe a month.

    I don’t play games that much to make such comparisons, though.

    • TheChurn
      32•9 months ago

      Haskell isn’t really that hard to learn

      A monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors

        • Jack Riddle
          2•9 months ago

          Gorillions of set theorists are dead, and you have the gall to tell me that it never hurt anyone?

    • darcy
      6•9 months ago

      i agree. haskell is worth learning because its cool, and the skills/concepts are transferrable, not because the language is in demand