[codygman]

> Which, according to that comment (supposedly in support of Haskell) even points out that something as obvious and boring as "using a database" isn't clearly defined in Haskell.

They are using a very high standard of clearly defined. Haskell has production ready ways of accessing databases and working with them today.

> problems that aren't significant or meaningful are difficult/not well defined (like using a database).

If you feel database work isn't meaningful, Haskell provides "write plain parameterized SQL, get back results" type libraries too.

I disagree database access and the realm of ORMs is simple, which is what they are talking about. You can tell by how they say "working with databases".

Other languages disagree about the best ways to work with databases. I'm sure you've seen the endless raw SQL vs ORM debates.