In the early days haskell favored conceptual elegance heavily above practicality. I'd argue that java strings aren't perfect either, though. You can't seamless

In the early days haskell favored conceptual elegance heavily above practicality. I'd argue that java strings aren't perfect either, though. You can't seamlessly use the string interface for binary data or char arrays for instance. Also, java has various streaming implementations that all use completely different interfaces so maybe lazy java strings would have been helpful.