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Re:Why Learn Haskell? (2018) by lelanthran on Monday March 01, 2021 @09:00AM (#26302805)
> They toute the safety and maintainability for their choice, claiming it's the language of choice for banking institutions

So is COBOL. Doesn't mean anything, really. Bankers' choices in tech probably has nothing to do with ideological/purity issues in software development.

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Re:Why Learn Haskell? (2018) by exdsq on Monday March 01, 2021 @09:17AM (#26302948)
It's to do with the ability to formally reason about the code using formal methods/verification etc...
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