[mhitza]

Submitted report was published in 1994.

At the time I don't think Haskell had any of that, and not sure when monads were introduced in Haskell either (wasn't on day 1 I think). Which means that the language was simpler in some aspects.

But what I do think made the job simpler is that they had easy access to other people that knew Haskell. Whereas, today, unless you have a mentor you're going to need to handle any issues you're encountering via delayed responses on community forums... Or AI, most of the time.

[kccqzy]

Yeah I know the report was from 1994. But it doesn't make sense to learn and use Haskell as if it's still 1994 and so that's not my argument. If anything, having the article be a top link on HN might convince someone to learn Haskell today, and that's what's relevant.

Totally agree on having people nearby that knew Haskell already.