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Re:Why Haskell is suited to IO by tmorgan on Monday July 04, 2011 @01:51PM (#2727234)
An amusing analogy, sure, but I can't help be reminded of this xkcd http://xkcd.com/568/ - "you'll never find a programing language that frees you from the burden of clarifying your ideas". Haskell just makes that trade-off more 'up front'. Obviously it's not the right tool for every job mind, of course sometimes quick and dirty scripts win.
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Re:Why Haskell is suited to IO by kemiller on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @06:32PM (#2731865)
Well, sure, but frequently I don't want to clarify all my ideas up front. I want to dip my toe in and see if my ideas have any legs at all. (Wow, tortured metaphor.)

I actually like Haskell. But I do think it's the wrong tool for a lot of the work that people here on HN tend to do.

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