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I'm with you here. It's not that Haskell isn't a good language, but that scripting languages are really good at scripting :) Haskell does have a good REPL and

I'm with you here. It's not that Haskell isn't a good language, but that scripting languages are really good at scripting :) Haskell does have a good REPL and being able to distribute a binary when finished is really nice.

jose_zap 8y ago
You can also run Haskell in interpreted mode, so it is actually a viable choice for scripting.
- 3rdAccount 8y ago
  It's viable, but certainly not designed for that sort of thing like Perl, Python, Powershell, Awk, & Bash. Many of those languages have built in niceties for scripting such as Perl's myriad of command line switches and well, everything about Powershell. They're optimized for shorter programs where Haskell is optimized for helping you write higher quality code.
  - jose_zap 8y ago
    Try the turtle library, after using it it would certainly feel for you like it was designed for scripting, it’s such a joy to use!