A lot of friends and colleagues ask me why I talk about Haskell. Before I learned Haskell I always used mainstream languages like Java, C and C++ - and still like them. So how could it happen that an imperative style developer converts into a Haskell fan? In this article I want to explain it - especially for developers with less experience in functional programming.

At first I will talk about a few topics to compare functional with object oriented programming, because it's the most popular paradigm. In the first code example I will give you a short introduction into the syntax of Haskell, because I will use it throughout this article...

A lot of friends and colleagues ask me why I talk about Haskell. Before I learned Haskell I always used mainstream languages like Java, C and C++ - and still like them. So how could it happen that an imperative style developer converts into a Haskell fan? In this article I want to explain it - especially for developers with less experience in functional programming.

At first I will talk about a few topics to compare functional with object oriented programming, because it's the most popular paradigm. In the first code example I will give you a short introduction into the syntax of Haskell, because I will use it throughout this article...