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So true. Haskell is great to learn about functional programming and programming language theory in general. But to get things done, it's just not as practical.

• platz 9y ago
  it's pretty practical if you're building line-of-business apps, web servers, or other things you would use java for.
  • gowld 9y ago
    Yes, miss one character in a thing that looks like HTML but is actually a gigantic function call, get an incomprehensible failure message about how the meta-template macro expansion has an error.
    • platz 9y ago
      macros/templates are usually confined to borders, databases, routes. not the business logic. Lisps are more susceptible to that.
      • gowld 9y ago
        Not even talking about business logic, just talking about page layout. https://www.yesodweb.com https://www.yesodweb.com
        • platz 9y ago
          Yes, c# and Java do codegen for you too, in the same way. This is how templating in static languages work.