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by avmich 4070 days ago
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them." A. N. Whitehead.

It's often said that a Lisp advantage is to be able to write sloppy - without fully understanding what's needed. I guess you can model that degree of "less constraints" in Haskell as well? Otherwise constant forcing "understand what you're doing" can sometimes be a burden.