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0 points59nadir11y ago0 comments

> 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?

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Ixiaus11y ago

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.

eru11y ago

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

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

dasil00311y ago

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

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