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by codygman 4192 days ago
If I took time to link to each one of those would it change your opinion any?
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Likely. Ideally with code tutorials/examples rather than "me and my friends changed X to Haskell and we liked it".

I mean, it's not I am anti-Haskell or something (it is clearly on my list things to learn), and I am theoretically-inclined (I did quantum physics and pure mathematics). Moreover, I am biased towards clever, succinct solutions rather that horrible code that "just works, somehow".

Yet, for practical problems I do things that work, even if it is JavaScript code, which is not even close to "pure" or "nice".

I'm interested. I probably wont ever use Haskell again, but it would be nice to see that there is more to the community than the self-congratulatory cleverness competition that I experienced.