[59nadir]

> Ignoring the joy of writing software with much more powerful abstractions for a moment (Python, Ruby, JS, PHP all look like jalopies now compared to Haskell)

Just out of curiosity: Which abstractions are we talking about here that Haskell doesn't have? OO?

[Ixiaus]

I didn't write that sentence very well if that's how it was interpreted, sorry. I meant to say that the abstractions available to Haskell are more powerful.

I can't really think of any abstraction that's not available to it - even an Object System is possible in Haskell, it just wouldn't be as easy to use as Monads are.

[eru]

> I can't really think of any abstraction that's not available to it [...]

Dependent typing doesn't work very well in Haskell (yet).

[dasil003]

I believe he meant Haskell's abstractions are more powerful.