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I'll take your word for it then, since I have seen similar opinions expressed before, but when you say "serious" what particular qualities are you thinking abou

• benreesman 5y ago
  See a problem, realize it’s a graph, realize it’s traveling salesman, reduce it to 3SAT, and start grinding it out in MiniSAT before I can type “jupyter lab”.
  • eru 5y ago
    That's not particularly Haskell specific. What's more Haskell specific is recognizing many problems can be solved easier when seen through the lens of parsers, interpreters and/or compilers. Haskell's and the whole ML family of languages are great at writing parsers etc. In fact they were originally invented for implementing other languages.
    • CactusOnFire 5y ago
      I have always figured the appeal of Haskell, Clojure, et al., is to transpile your task and turn any software problem into your language of choice.
      • eru 5y ago
        Yes, though that's related, but not really want I wanted to say. I meant that solving a problem in Haskell can often mean eg writing something a bit like a parser.