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Simon Peyton Jones - Haskell is useless
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A short clip of Simon Peyton Jones talking about the future of programming languages, saying Haskell is useless in the sense that pure programs cannot have effects, while mainstream languages are useful but unsafe. He describes languages converging, with ideas such as STM and LINQ moving between them.
HN cites it constantly in language debates for his useful-versus-safe diagram and the convergence of languages, with commenters clarifying that his remark predates how Haskell handles effects.
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