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Peyton-Jones said that Haskell was useless before they got a handle on how to do IO. Haskell is clearly not useless at present.

• meaty 14y ago
  However it's far harder to make it not useless than other choices. To me at least, Haskell appears to be alphabet soup like badly written Perl. The syntax is so close to the metal it's unreal.
  • pcwalton 14y ago
    SPJ's comment had nothing to do with lexical syntax.