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Re:Rust as a gateway drug to Haskell by igouy on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @01:14PM (#14554195)
That pi-digits program does not "build on [your] machine no problem".

It cannot.

The line "main = putStr.pidgits.read.head =<< getArgs" has been commented out because the program author has optimised-away some of the work that must be done.

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Re:Rust as a gateway drug to Haskell by Tarean on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @04:23PM (#14555821)
Fair enough, I only checked the two knucleotide programs which both failed because of missing dependencies.
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