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I think people are missing the fact that Haskell was created for programming language research, and not for commercial purposes. It is somewhat of an accident t
by haspok 4y ago
I think people are missing the fact that Haskell was created for programming language research, and not for commercial purposes. It is somewhat of an accident that people started using it outside of its original domain. It was never meant for "general purpose SW".
- jose_zap 4y agoThe motivation for Haskell included building large applications. It was not solely a research language, but the culmination of years of research in non strict functional languages: https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/preface-jfp.html https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/preface-jfp.html