Haskell is just playing a different game. Clojure/Scala/F# might also be playing that game or something somewhat like it, but until you start to realize just ho

Haskell is just playing a different game. Clojure/Scala/F# might also be playing that game or something somewhat like it, but until you start to realize just how relaxing pure, statically checked code is you're coding in a tar pit. Even the IO system is better because you think of it as nothing more than a way to manipulate and combine a kind of pure data corresponding to sequences of "real world" actions.