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TL;DR: OP hasn't tried haskell yet ;p

• zerr 9y ago
  Neither Perl 6.
  • ilyash 9y ago
    I'm programming-language-curious. I tried Haskell and read a lot about perl6. Haskell melts my brain. Maybe it's getting better later, I tried about 3 days. perl6 - sigils are still there (even more of them) and overall feeling is not that different from perl5 despite such great improvements as named function parameters :)
• xelxebar 9y ago
  I know you're joking, but I would really like to have the Haskell type system in my shell with suitably-typed versions of the standard utilities: sed, awk, grep, etc. I tried asking #haskell on freenode about "using ghci as a shell" and everybody thought it was a horrible idea. Oh well :(
  • kreetx 9y ago
    If what most people thought were always the way taken we wouldn't have any of the great things we have today. In other words: try using it as a shell anyway, write the needed pieces of infrastructure, and share the results! :) (There are people who've done work in this direction, but none of them haven't broken out to any significant amount of followers.)
    • xelxebar 9y ago
      Thanks for the encouragement! For those at all interested, some of the existing tools/libs in this arena are * shelly [1], * turtle [2], and * hell [3]. I currently don't have much Haskell experience, but I do keep a ghci session open, hoping that the frustrations of using it as a shell push me to both learn and create. [1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/shelly https://hackage.haskell.org/package/shelly [2] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/turtle https://hackage.haskell.org/package/turtle [3] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hell https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hell