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Re:Haskell for a New Decade [pdf] by mrkeen on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @06:50AM (#23626423)
> For Haskell to succeed, it has to move away from rigid commitment to various pure functional paradigms and move to eager execution by default.

How far do you want to take the eager execution thing?

Should we get rid of boolean short-circuiting?

Should if-statements evaluate both the true and false paths before choosing one?

Should compilers no longer remove dead code?

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Re:Haskell for a New Decade [pdf] by mlthoughts2018 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @12:35PM (#23630180)
Many languages have already figured out good trade offs, why shouldn’t we expect a high standard of Haskell?
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