Haskell or PHP?

LongBanana

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• Feb 4, 2012

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Recently, I found out that Haskell can be used for web development and is very fast and takes a lot less lines of code to get things done.
I don't know the language yet, but I know it's a functional language.

I've been doing some PHP work lately and i'm still learning. Although it is more widely used, I am leaning towards trying to learn Haskell to create my websites from now on.

What do you guys think?

 

LongBanana

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• Feb 5, 2012
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Any programmers here with experience with Haskell?

 

Allie Albatross

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• Feb 11, 2012

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You will have more support learning PHP. More examples, more people using it, and more businesses using it. Why would you want to learn a more obscure language?

 

sfidirectory

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• Feb 11, 2012

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My old lecturer talked about Haskell alot on lectures... It made me curious too and am wondering if there is much support for it from the major hosting providers (or any). I have never seen a line of Haskell code before but if is similar to PHP and Java I may put aside some time to learn it.

 

weedsmoker

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• Feb 11, 2012

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Let me give you my example, i've been working primarily in PHP and Python, both languages are used for web development, i think than Python is better language overall, even for web in some cases.
Depending of job requirements i'm trying to choose the right language for job. But in most cases i don't look what language is better overall or what language fit better for given job, i choose language depending on amount of time i will spend programming (reading documentation, finding examples, finding right libraries ...).

For me, when i'm building web apps amount of time with PHP < amount of time with Python, so PHP > Python, on the other hand when i'm working on automatization tasks and scapping bots Python > PHP.
Haskell probably will be best tool for some tasks, maybe i'm wrong, but i doubt it will be web development.

 

Last edited: Feb 11, 2012

Gary Becks

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• Feb 11, 2012

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The sad but true fact is that for Web Development you are going to have a VERY hard time trying to escape using PHP.

I don't even personally want to use/learn the language but I really have no choice. My forum uses it, Wordpress, Facebook , etc..

There's just not much you can do without it these days.

 

Daisysiegal

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• Feb 15, 2012

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Gary Becks said:

The sad but true fact is that for Web Development you are going to have a VERY hard time trying to escape using PHP.

I don't even personally want to use/learn the language but I really have no choice. My forum uses it, Wordpress, Facebook , etc..

There's just not much you can do without it these days.

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From what i understand...there's not much that PHP "can't do"...so why bother learning Haskell?

Unless Haskell has something unique to offer?

...(just sayin)

~D

 

sirgold

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• Feb 15, 2012

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php for real development. haskell or any other functional programming for bragging rights with yer friends

 

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hiderightnow

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• Feb 22, 2012

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I say just stick with PHP or Python. You will have an easier task debugging your pages or getting help than with an unsupported 'lazy functional programming language'.

 

Digital Marketer

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• Mar 15, 2012

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LongBanana said:

Any programmers here with experience with Haskell?

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Heard haskell for the first time
Whats this.?

 

weedsmoker

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sameer5762 said:

Heard haskell for the first time
Whats this.?

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Functional programming language, it goes into the "academic languages" group, good for teaching, praised my many, but you'll rarely see it in practical/industrial use.

 

Orbit143

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• Mar 15, 2012

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With Haskell you will probably need your own server to run it. PHP runs on every hosting, even the free ones.

 

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dunker

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• Mar 20, 2012

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A friend of mine toyed around quite a bit with Haskell and while it's a great concept, it hasn't found too much "grip" in real world - at least not yet.

Being a functional programming language (as weedsmoker already mentioned), it's usually taught alongside Prolog and other fundamentally different programming languages.

 

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Finite

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Haskell is probably one of the hardest languages to learn. I would highly recommend using something else unless you have many years experience in programming.