Haskell, and BoS, i think, are both special cases. First, Haskell is actually pretty old. There are changes, of course, but the core language is '98. IIRC, Bria

Haskell, and BoS, i think, are both special cases. First, Haskell is actually pretty old. There are changes, of course, but the core language is '98. IIRC, Brian O'Sullivan wrote a high performance parsing library, attoparsec. In general, I think i agree with the article. In this specific case, it's a fantastic example of leveraging your strengths to do something amazing.