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> Haskell is excellently suited for solving extremely complex problems and why it's so desirable for concurrency and parallelism tasks. What is an example of a
by imakesnowflakes 11y ago
> Haskell is excellently suited for solving extremely complex problems and why it's so desirable for concurrency and parallelism tasks.
What is an example of an extremely complex problem that you have solved that would be vastly more harder to implement in another language.
The most powerful thing that I have noticed is the type system. When you have a complex problem, you end up breaking it up by writing a lot of functions. In case of a language with a less powerful type system, it is hard for you to string them all together to build the complete program.
But with Haskell, if you have cared to actually annotate the types, this becomes a really trivial task. It also detects flaws in your reasoning (because the result of the previous step is incompatible with the input of the current step).
So, doing this would be vastly more difficult in a language like Python or even a language with less powerful type system like C.