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		tormeh on May 4, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I tried Haskell for 5 years If it had Algol syntax and Algol naming conventions it might actually have succeeded outside of academia. The decision not to go with an Algol-derived syntax was probably the biggest mistake ever done in Haskell's design.

dllthomas on May 5, 2017 [–]

Maybe... I'm not convinced the semantics would feel as good in that setting.

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