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Or all the other fevers we've suffered through. Haskell seems like an attractive language but I wish boosters wouldn't advocate their languages as the fix to the problems of large-scale software engineering issues when there's little or no evidence for their claims.

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There was a cool talk on "The Haskell Chat" episode two [1] that goes over how haskell is used in a large team, some members with expert haskell knowledge, some as just technical end-users of the libraries.

I found it really interesting to see how a large team can deal with a real haskell project.

[1]: http://www.haskellcast.com/episode/002-don-stewart-on-real-w...

Well, the problem with this is that the evidence is locked up in company trade secrets. A lot of the big commercial users of Haskell are in finance and all their code is under lock and key.

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