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Re:How it feels to join an all-Haskell startup by jonnybgood on Thursday June 11, 2015 @11:36PM (#9703877)
This is common complaint I see of the Haskell community where there is always an attempt at cleverness over clarity.
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Re:How it feels to join an all-Haskell startup by danidiaz on Friday June 12, 2015 @03:05AM (#9704431)
The use of Applicative is actually an attempt at clarity, by restricting the kinds of things that the code can actually do.

As it name implies, Applicative is a kind of "effectful application". There have been proposals to implement a more natural syntax that makes the connection more clear.

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Re:How it feels to join an all-Haskell startup by ricccardo on Friday June 12, 2015 @12:00AM (#9703960)
Unfortunately I think it's the language, not the community. It definitely happenes with my own code as well, no hints from external developers are required :-) I miss Python in this regard.
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Re:How it feels to join an all-Haskell startup by rectangletangle on Friday June 12, 2015 @03:34AM (#9704498)
Kind of ironic seeing as Python takes quite a few things from Haskell, like comprehensions, and zip.
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