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Re:Dhall: A Gateway Drug to Haskell by haspok on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @03:42AM (#31664463)
I think people are missing the fact that Haskell was created for programming language research, and not for commercial purposes. It is somewhat of an accident that people started using it outside of its original domain. It was never meant for "general purpose SW".
Re:Dhall: A Gateway Drug to Haskell by jose_zap on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:31AM (#31664717)
The motivation for Haskell included building large applications. It was not solely a research language, but the culmination of years of research in non strict functional languages:

https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/preface-jfp.html