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by samgd 3118 days ago
Standard Chartered has over 3 million lines of Haskell code and Facebook uses it to fight spam - there's definitely more than you think out there :-)

http://hauptwerk.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/four-openings-for-ha...

https://code.facebook.com/posts/745068642270222/fighting-spa...

2 comments

> Standard Chartered has over 3 million lines of Haskell code

Not exactly, they have their own closed source fork of GHC, which is strictly evaluated. Given that the codebase is proprietary it's unknown what other differences there are beyond having dumped lazy evaluation. It's a Haskell-like language, but far different than the Haskell that the public has access to.

I don't think a spam filter would be the first thing you'd prove correct if you wanted to go down that road..