> Since I'm not here to convince anyone, I can say your straw man is the opposite of my experience. I've never been able to prototype and change a system in any

> Since I'm not here to convince anyone, I can say your straw man is the opposite of my experience. I've never been able to prototype and change a system in any phase of its lifetime faster than I've been in Haskell. Haskell has downsides, but speed of development and maintenance is one of its strong points. Yup, and when it comes to fun, I've never had more fun programming that in Haskell, where I let the compiler check the annoying fiddly bits so my brain is free to tackle the meaty problems!