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by zzalpha 3569 days ago
Actually, based on my experience, what I found most remarkable about writing code in Haskell (which I admit I haven't done much of) is that I'd spend an enormous out of time wrestling with the compiler, but once I finally got all the type errors to clear out, the odds were surprisingly high that the code would "just work", which is not an experience I had with even other compiled languages (Java, C#, etc).

'course, it probably wouldn't work fast, and it was 50/50 whether I'd introduced space leaks, but...