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Re:The Haskell user experience by outworlder on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @10:40AM (#10010000)
> A billion little unmemorable functions with symbolic names

Pretty much. If you though Common Lisp was bad, this is much worse. And that makes for a major (re-)learning curve every time you stop programming in Haskell for a couple of months.

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Re:The Haskell user experience by LukeHoersten on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @01:50PM (#10011500)
I actually like the symbolic function names. They're a pattern and method to them that once you learn it, it's super convenient. Perhaps it just needs more obvious documentation.
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Re:The Haskell user experience by sknuds on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @01:05PM (#10011191)
It'd be nice to be able to search by type declaration
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Re:The Haskell user experience by dllthomas on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @01:08PM (#10011209)
Hoogle lets you do exactly that, with fuzzy matching:

https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=a+-%3E+[b]

It's as useful as you might hope!

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Re:The Haskell user experience by anthk on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @09:31PM (#10014083)
I am not a Haskeller, but you can use "!h searchterm" on Duck Duck Go.
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Re:The Haskell user experience by ddellacosta on Thursday August 06, 2015 @12:11AM (#10014484)
OMG thank you, this was the thing that got me to finally permanently set my toolbar search in FF to Duck Duck Go...
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Re:The Haskell user experience by anthk on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @09:30PM (#10014080)
That's why I like Scheme.
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