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You have to concede it's a bit funny that you're pointing to Haskell as an example of the 'worse-is-better' approach that leads to viral adoption of dirty solut
by gfodor 15y ago
You have to concede it's a bit funny that you're pointing to Haskell as an example of the 'worse-is-better' approach that leads to viral adoption of dirty solutions over the endless pursuit of perfection.
- psykotic 15y agoIf anything you could turn it around and say that ML's approach to control and data effects exemplifies worse-is-better on the purity spectrum. It took a long time for Haskell to solve these problems a la Haskell 98. It's only recently that Haskell has "caught on" relative to ML.
- cageface 15y agoHaskell is much more "MIT approach" than "New Jersey approach". For a better example, consider how the quick & dirty hack that is Javascript is now far, for more commercially important than the entire FP language family combined (although, it's worth noting, somewhat inspired by FP).
- thesz 15y agoAs of importance, I boldly compare JS to Middle Ages' plague. It is very important but not the way it helps.