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Re:Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other pro... by yakshaving_jgt on Sunday October 06, 2019 @09:56AM (#21172023)
> The world is full of special cases, of corner cases, of exceptions, of holes, of particular conditions, of differences for first or last element, and other irregularities; it is also full of sequential events.

Yes. All of which are modelled in Haskell in a pretty straightforward manner. I’d argue Haskell models adversity like this better than most languages.

> but not with many real-world problems.

Haskell is a general purpose language. People use it to solve real world problems every day. I do. My colleagues do. A huge amount of people do.

> Well, one may say that answering with questions could fit the bill...

I see. So trying to define the terms to enable constructive discourse is elitist. Got it.

If you want me to be more concrete and assertive, fine. No problem. Here we go.

You are wrong.

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