Haskell Typeclasses vs. C++ Classes
I kinda wish the Haskell designers hadn&#x27;t gone with the term &quot;typeclass&quot;, as it&#x27;s incredibly misleading.<p>Typeclasses have a lot more cognitive similarity to Go-style interfaces or Smalltalk protocols than they do to OOP-style classes, and that fact can be enormously confusing to newcomers (which, at times, seems to be the Haskell raison d&#x27;etre).