[Linux-aus] FOSS-as-a-service

[Katie McLaughlin]

> If you're interested in programming then learning Haskell or a similar
> functional language is quite an eye-opening experience

If you're interested in learning about functional programming, there's a
whole miniconf about it this year! It's running on Tuesday in the Woolshed.

I highly recommend perusing the schedule, and attending the FP talk about a
language you are familiar with: we have Python, Swift, JavaScript, Scala
and Haskell talks.

/plug

On the topic of github-backup <https://github.com/joeyh/github-backup>: the
github API is quite accessible if you want to use one of the many
language-specific API packages and just iterate over everything in a
particular repo.


- Katie

On 27 January 2016 at 22:35, Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen at shikadi.net> wrote:

> > > Sadly it is written in haskell which makes hacking on it quite hard
> > > unless you are already into haskell.
> >
> > Is it hard to hack because Haskell is a hard language to work in or
> > because you're unfamiliar with it?
>
> Haskell is difficult to pick up if you've never been exposed to
> functional programming languages before.  It's a completely different
> mindset to imperative languages like C, Python, Java, etc. and most
> common programming problems are solved in completely different ways.
> For instance most languages like Haskell don't allow for/while loops,
> instead repeating certain sections of code by making use of recursive
> function calls.  And for a seasoned imperative programmer, it seems
> like all lines of a Haskell program execute at the same time which is
> mind bending.
>
> If you're interested in programming then learning Haskell or a similar
> functional language is quite an eye-opening experience.  But for most
> people the learning curve is very steep and it may not be worth the
> effort depending on what you hope to contribute in the case of an
> existing project.
>
> Cheers,
> Adam.
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