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Re:What Is Good About Haskell? by h91wka on Thursday October 03, 2019 @10:20AM (#21147263)
> This being said, Haskell does have something in it that encourages one to design a ballistic algebra that runs in the type system before even pointing a gun at one's foot.

Haskell is not even a total language, so type system doesn't magically divert gun from your feet. You can easily prove False in Haskell (there's a Prelude function for doing this!), enough said. And if you want types keep your feet safe, it's possible of course, at a _great_ cost, and not in Haskell.

Re:What Is Good About Haskell? by antisemiotic on Thursday October 03, 2019 @06:55PM (#21153124)
I was referencing an old joke; that Haskell programmers allegedly spend so much time polishing their types that they never get around to actually write anything useful.