You can also run Haskell in interpreted mode, so it is actually a viable choice for scripting.
Re:Perl 11
by 3rdAccount on Friday October 26, 2018 @09:42PM
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It's viable, but certainly not designed for that sort of thing like Perl, Python, Powershell, Awk, & Bash. Many of those languages have built in niceties for scripting such as Perl's myriad of command line switches and well, everything about Powershell. They're optimized for shorter programs where Haskell is optimized for helping you write higher quality code.
Haskell does have a good REPL and being able to distribute a binary when finished is really nice.