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I agree, the benefit of this, is that it creates a frontier where math can be applied more rigorously to programs. There is a related xkcd comic about this. We

by dgb23 6y ago

I agree, the benefit of this, is that it creates a frontier where math can be applied more rigorously to programs. There is a related xkcd comic about this. We’re in a “not there yet” kind of situation. The author likely comes from a very mainstream product centric domain, as most do. In this context one has to agree with the criticism and maybe also admit that this is not what the language is for?

feanaro 6y ago
This is a good point. But I also want to add that as a freelance developer, I've done quite a number of medium sized projects for business use cases in Haskell singlehandedly. Empirically, the results were very low in bugs and remain at use at the companies in question without requiring much maintenance. So this kind of thing is something that is well served by Haskell, in my opinion. I wouldn't seriously recommend someone else that the best path to doing this kind of work is to go and learn Haskell but I also feel this is something I wouldn't have been able to do as well using many other more popular languages.