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		lemonwaterlime 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Haskell? > Haskell is also probably the language that lets you produce the most succinct code It is. Haskell has the low verbosity of scripting languages like Ruby and Python while letting you manage applications that would otherwise be written in high verbosity languages like C++, Java, and Rust.

ykonstant 11 months ago [–]

Idris and Lean have a similar advantage; once you get past the general notation, the code syntax is very smooth and easy to follow.

tkz1312 11 months ago | [–]

Totally. ML style syntax is just so much cleaner than the curly braces / semicolon orthodoxy.

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