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The Mystical Properties of Programming Languages, or Why I Chose Haskell

by dysruption on 5/11/15, 6:15 AM with 1 comments

  • by mlitchard on 5/11/15, 6:41 PM

    The power of Haskell goes beyond the particular language. It encodes powerful ideas of value in and of themselves. When we've got better than Haskell (say, production-ready Idris), the investment made in understanding these ideas will continue to pay dividends.