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I've never heard of or met a circumstance that actually warranted Haskell. Not even in finance, those guys are totally wasting their time. It's an attractive

I've never heard of or met a circumstance that actually warranted Haskell. Not even in finance, those guys are totally wasting their time. It's an attractive (I'm going to say "it seems" though you ought to take that for granted) intellectual rathole. Like some forms of philosophy, like many things. Thank GOD (despite being unbelieving at the time) I went with Lisp instead. And I got real speedups.

ParetoOptimal 4y ago
> I've never heard of or met a circumstance that actually warranted Haskell. Sounds like you are biased to conclude it has no purpose to begin with.
benreesman 4y ago
Algorithmic finance might be the most ruthlessly Darwinian area of industrial software, it’s way up there certainly. It’s also notoriously opaque, which makes it especially hard to know that so-and-so is wasting their time. How about “I don’t like Haskell and/or OCaml because X, I recommend Lisp instead because Y” as an alternative formulation? That one I’d be interested to read!