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Re:Haskell: Syntactic Heroin by notcoolatall on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @05:55PM (#37758137)
I'm not even going to read this because you put the name of a lethal addictive drug in the title.

More than a poor metaphor, that's insensitive to people who are getting clean and have to deal with people who haven't decided to change yet.

That's a s****y drug, and that language is not.

"Narcotic painkillers prolong pain in rats, says CU-Boulder study" (2016) https://www.colorado.edu/today/2016/05/31/narcotic-painkille...

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Re:Haskell: Syntactic Heroin by JoeyBananas on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @07:27PM (#37758947)
> That's a s**y drug, and that language is not.

Have you tried coding in haskell?

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