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What is Haskell actually useful for?

What is Haskell good at?

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I guess it is good at demonstrating (in practice) the first and second theorem about recursion : )

UPDATE: Maybe the downvoter shall have a look at this page

rano
well again, you are making Kleene's soul angry
rano
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It's a Turing complete language, so it's good for programming..

Blindy
Brainf**k is also Turing complete, I don't think it's _good_ for programming.
KennyTM
Depends how masochistic you're feeling.. Regardless, a stupid question deserves a stupid answer.
Blindy
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solving complicated problems in a few lines of codes using recursion (my friend used to joke about being able to send each other solutions to a project via sms :P) (can be very elegant) while using other languages might have needed much more lines of codes

code007
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I used hakell to learn functional programming which I have then used in the real world for developing xslt.

A better question might be: "What are functional programming languages good at?"

Adam Butler
Not really. That question has been asked here before as well.
Rayne