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Re:If You're Not Writing a Program, Don't Use a Programming ... by nestorD on Monday September 24, 2018 @12:23PM (#18058985)
I find that ML (Ocaml and F#) does not get in my way (Haskell being the exception due to the absence of quick and dirty mutability) while dynamic typing (in python) does hinder me when I depend on external libraries.
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Re:If You're Not Writing a Program, Don't Use a Programming ... by nybble41 on Monday September 24, 2018 @03:34PM (#18060713)
> Haskell being the exception due to the absence of quick and dirty mutability

Haskell has ST for mutable local variables, and for the truly "quick and dirty" cases there's always unsafePerformIO. What is it you're trying to express that wouldn't be handled by either of these options?

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Re:If You're Not Writing a Program, Don't Use a Programming ... by vmchale on Monday September 24, 2018 @11:04PM (#18063271)
> Haskell being the exception due to the absence of quick and dirty mutability

I don't think that's "getting in your way" so much as asking you learn pure, immutable data structures. Which is good even aside concerns of laziness.

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