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Re:Which Programming Languages Are Functional? by felixgallo on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @12:39PM (#10813176)
While HKT are pretty neat, they're hardly essential, and to claim that without them you literally can't build reusable FP libraries is ridiculous.
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Re:Which Programming Languages Are Functional? by tome on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @02:20PM (#10813752)
Perhaps it's more accurate to say there are well-known, pervasive, use cases that are not possible without HKTs.
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