Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why Haskell is beautiful to the novice

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:42 PM, M Farkas-Dyck wrote:

On 31/08/2015, Mike Meyer wrote:

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Of course not. There are application areas for which COBOL is clearly superior to - and hence more worthy than - Java. Or Haskell.

Name one.

When what you mean by 'file' is this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_set_%28IBM_mainframe%29 Cobol is unbeatable