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		tome on July 31, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Elm in Production: 25K Lines Later > Nope. It's a genuine feeling. That's not exclusive with being a troll. > Basically, in an ideal world we would have a "pragmatically typed" programming language. Yes, it's called Haskell. Or, if you don't like purity, either OCaml or F#.

dmitriid on July 31, 2017 [–]

I strongly believe Haskell is very very far from being a "pragmatically typed" language.

This reminds me, I need to write a blog post (which is tangentially about Haskell, but mostly about statically typed languages)

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