Re: [Haskell-cafe] can Haskell do everyting as we want?

David Leimbach wrote:

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote:

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Just to clarify, I mean: Haskell may be seriously addictive. Sounds like a joke, but it is not. I do not recommend it for coding something quick and dirty.

I use it for quick and dirty stuff all the time, mainly because what I want is often something that can be broken down into stages of processing, and pure functions are really nice for that.

If I know the input is coming from a reliable enough stream (like a unix pipe to stdin) I can use functions like "interact" to create filters, or parse some input, and produce some output.

It's pretty nice.

I may be mistaken (in which case, I'm sorry for putting words in his mouth) but I understood what he was saying not as that Haskell is not suited for quick and dirty projects, but rather that Haskell for small projects could be a dangerous "gateway drug" that could seriously impact one's ability to continue to enjoy working in other languages. -- James