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Re:Simon Peyton Jones – Haskell is useless [video] by hiddencost on Sunday February 18, 2024 @05:12PM (#39423997)
I took a Haskell course in grad school from someone who contributed to Haskell.

They made the claim that the primary function (lol) of Haskell was to discover new PL ideas which then got adopted by the major languages.

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Re:Simon Peyton Jones – Haskell is useless [video] by int_19h on Sunday February 18, 2024 @07:25PM (#39424966)
That's why Microsoft keeps paying the bills. Designers of LINQ in C#, for example, mentioned Haskell more than once as one of their inspirations.
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Re:Simon Peyton Jones – Haskell is useless [video] by louthy on Sunday February 18, 2024 @08:36PM (#39425352)
> Designers of LINQ in C#

Erik Meijer, he's in the video :)

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Re:Simon Peyton Jones – Haskell is useless [video] by occamrazor on Monday February 19, 2024 @02:04AM (#39426914)
> Microsoft keeps paying the bills

For those who may not know it: SPJ was employed at Microsoft Research for a long time. He recently moved to Epic Games, where he co-developed the Verse language.

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Re:Simon Peyton Jones – Haskell is useless [video] by richrichie on Sunday February 18, 2024 @06:10PM (#39424493)
Rust may not exist without Haskell!
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Re:Simon Peyton Jones – Haskell is useless [video] by betaby on Sunday February 18, 2024 @07:02PM (#39424840)
I don't see why not.
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Re:Simon Peyton Jones – Haskell is useless [video] by curryhoward on Sunday February 18, 2024 @08:19PM (#39425250)
For one, Rust's "trait" system, which is a foundational part of the language that enables a lot of Rust's expressivity, is a limited imitation of Haskell's "type classes". Rust would be a very different language without it.
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Re:Simon Peyton Jones – Haskell is useless [video] by golergka on Sunday February 18, 2024 @05:38PM (#39424218)
Why not? That's primary function of many research entities of various sorts in very different industries.
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Re:Simon Peyton Jones – Haskell is useless [video] by _a_a_a_ on Sunday February 18, 2024 @06:14PM (#39424518)
Exactly what I understood, that Haskell was intentionally a language laboratory.
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