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If Haskell is the Cure, what is the Disease?8-))

Haskell occupies a niche similar to Hamilton's quaternions (for classical physics) and Heisenberg's matrices (for quantum mechanics) - not mandatory, inaccessible to the masses and abandoned with haste once a more intuitive tool is found.

But they will always be there if you need them.



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