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by jakelazaroff 1260 days ago
So am I, and yet we hold different opinions about which languages to choose for different purposes.

This article might interest you: https://josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/ (you seem to be tribe 1, I'm probably tribe 3)

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I can see why you have come to that opinion, but I would actually put myself immediately into tribe 3.

My code is not poetry; it kinda sucks. I’m not a gifted programmer, which is why I make up for my shortcomings with better tools. I use Haskell entirely for the sake of pragmatism [and have in fact bet my businesses on it]. My experience is such that I can build something that just works much more quickly and reliably in Haskell or Elm than I ever could in PHP or Ruby or JavaScript or Clojure[Script]. And I wrote each of these professionally for years.