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Inside the Cult of the Haskell Programmer
It's spooky. It's esoteric. It's also the key to understanding the rise and relevance of functional programming.
The Haskell committee would blowtorch the messy excess of imperative programming with high-powered mathematics, sculpt a new chassis with the guidance of advanced logic, and weld everything together with modern compiling techniques. In its essence, Haskell has more in common with the films of Charlie Kaufman than other programming languages: highly cerebral, charmingly offbeat, and oddly tasteful; appreciated by those in the know and judged by outsiders as pretentious. In recent years, a Haskell-style paradigm has come into vogue because of the treasury of benefits it offers: rendering certain categories of bugs impossible by design, making a program’s correctness more provable, and enabling easy parallel computation.
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