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Re:What Is Good About Haskell? by pytester on Thursday October 03, 2019 @07:47AM (#21145883)
"Packages exist for doing this" isn't the same thing as "this is a good ecosystem for doing this kind of work" though.

I'm fairly convinced that Haskell is good at preventing the kinds of bugs which you might run into writing, say, a parser or other kinds of very complex logical code, but I'm less convinced that the nature of the language helps with the kinds of issues you get hooking together APIs, databases, etc.

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Re:What Is Good About Haskell? by marcosdumay on Thursday October 03, 2019 @08:24AM (#21146162)
Nearly all of those packages are best in kind, and most actually in a different league from anything that you'll get in another language.
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Re:What Is Good About Haskell? by coldtea on Thursday October 03, 2019 @09:18AM (#21146581)
You assert this, but the parent asked for it to be shown...
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Re:What Is Good About Haskell? by marcosdumay on Thursday October 03, 2019 @09:34AM (#21146741)
> show me what I need to know to do what I do

That's the only one occurrence I can find. I think the GGP made a good job of answering that.

I'm not going to walk over the differences as each of those would be a many hours task just for explaining.

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