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		lmm on June 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why GitHub used Haskell for Semantic It sounds like you're trying to judge Haskell based on your experience of Java and C#? Don't do that. The Java/C# type systems have substantial limitations, but that's not a problem of type systems in general, it's a problem of C++-family languages specifically.

namelosw on June 6, 2019 [–]

On the contrary, I'm not judging Haskell and Haskell is one of the most Perlis languages to me.

I'm judging Java and C# etc (statically typed but not flexible) are Anti-Perlis because it draws too many imagination boundaries to their users.

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