Languages are judged by their standard library, and standard Haskell strings are part of the problem and not part of the solution. Multiple moderately bad stri

Languages are judged by their standard library, and standard Haskell strings are part of the problem and not part of the solution. Multiple moderately bad string types, with strict typing that exacerbates interoperability problems, are worse than one really bad string type (like char pointers in C) or nothing at all.