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by winter_blue 995 days ago
Statically typed languages in the 90s had a reputation for being verbose (like Java’s Cat = new Cat()), or difficult to work with (like C’s manual memory management). Haskell and other ML family languages hadn’t quite gotten that popular. Type inference wasn’t a feature in many popular statically typed languages until recently. And type inference makes static typing significantly easier.

The P in the LAMP stack is still a bit of a mystery to me. It could (one could wish) have been Haskell instead, but oh well.