Haskell

@Haskell I failed to learn Haskell approximately 2 times before finally grasping it because it all just seemed too weird to me and I didn't get it. But then once it just "clicked" and after getting over that initial hurdle, it was pretty much smooth sailing.

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Notes

• In purely functional programming you don't tell the computer what to do as such but rather you tell it what stuff is[unlike ctrl flowes of imperative cpp types]
• build more complex functions by gluing simple functions together.

Say you have an immutable list of numbers xs = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] and a function doubleMe which multiplies every element by 2 and then returns a new list. If we wanted to multiply our list by 8 in an imperative language and did doubleMe(doubleMe(doubleMe(xs))),

• Haskell is statically typed. When you compile your program, the compiler knows which piece of code is a number, which is a string and so on.

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