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Re:The general value of typed functional programming lies in... by dmitriid on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @02:54PM (#22416732)
No. No matter how much you dress it with words, technology is not magic. Monads are not magic. Haskell is not magic.

If your data and/or problem is modeled as "if 0 then N/A" no amount of "human nature implicitly explicitly transformed" will help you.

Dealing with non-existent data as opposed to "value = 0" is just as natural in Java, C++ or Javascript as it is in Haskell. And yet, that didn't help.

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