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		eru on Feb 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I would like a job writing Haskell That's not particularly Haskell specific. What's more Haskell specific is recognizing many problems can be solved easier when seen through the lens of parsers, interpreters and/or compilers. Haskell's and the whole ML family of languages are great at writing parsers etc. In fact they were originally invented for implementing other languages.

CactusOnFire on Feb 8, 2022 [–]

I have always figured the appeal of Haskell, Clojure, et al., is to transpile your task and turn any software problem into your language of choice.

eru on Feb 9, 2022 | [–]

Yes, though that's related, but not really want I wanted to say.

I meant that solving a problem in Haskell can often mean eg writing something a bit like a parser.

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