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Re:Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud by rlpb on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @10:19AM (#4386049)
I'd love to hear Joey's answer on this question: why Haskell?
Re:Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud by dons on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @12:59PM (#4386886)
He had said previously:

Joeyh: "One (git-annex) is a large-ish, serious work, and I have been very pleased with how haskell has made it better, even though there was a learning curve (took me two weeks to write the first prototype, which I could have probably dashed off in perl in two days), and even though I have occasionally been blocked by the type system or something and had to do more work.

One concrete thing I've noticed is that this is the only program where I have listed every single bug I fixed in the changelog -- because there have been so few, it's really a notable change to fix one!"

Re:Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud by dan00 on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @02:18PM (#4387336)
Joey about the reusability of code: http://markmail.org/thread/nurcqm4yotgkmhbr