> I think we agree Haskell is far too dogmatic about its abstractions when it's impractical to be used as a general-purpose language (because I don't think it's

> I think we agree Haskell is far too dogmatic about its abstractions when it's impractical to be used as a general-purpose language (because I don't think it's intended as a general-purpose language). Originally Haskell was designed to be a language providing > faster communication of new ideas, a stable foundation for real applications development, and a vehicle through which others would be encouraged to use functional languages https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/history.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... That doesn't necessarily imply general purpose of course, but today pretty much any language suitable for "real applications development" would be considered as "general purpose", I think. In any case, regardless of what Haskell was originally intended to be, I would say it is a general purpose language (and in fact the best general purpose language).