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Re:I tried Haskell for 5 years by posterboy on Thursday May 04, 2017 @03:17PM (#14267817)
"academic/hobbyist" probably doesn't give justice to the benefit those works provide for languages that implement experiments pioneered in i.e. haskell. I say "probably" because I can't give any exact examples.
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Re:I tried Haskell for 5 years by beojan on Thursday May 04, 2017 @06:12PM (#14269326)
This is really a specific example of the benefit academia generally provides to society being highly underappreciated.
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