Why does everyone consider the best language that currently exists a meme?

Why does everyone consider the best language that currently exists a meme?

Not used in production.

Language is irrelevant to big businesses, they care about results. Haskell is a poor engineering language, it was built by and for academics.

It's made for and used by smartasses and other compsci PhDs.

Nobody does

it's the child of academia and people use it as a topic to write published articles about basically

It's just one of those things that don't match with humans in general. Same thing with any lisp, regardless of it lovely qualities. Probably good research ground though for techniques that C# and Java can steal.

>functional
>good

Yes, which is why OO languages are slowly adding more and more functional features.

The fucking stink of you idiots who have never used Haskell is alarming

Java steals from Common Lisp. C# pilfers from Delphi.

Both take implementation ideas from C++.
I can rewrite older CL program's I wrote years ago almost directly into Java as of today.

Some features are not available though. I can't extend null with methods for example.
Sad!

type String = [Char]
>inb4 just use bytestring
I can't because even getArgs uses String
otherwise it's a truly wonderful language

Because they love the OOP meme. Some businesses use it, but there are not enough hipsters in FP to make it the norm.

Because it makes simple things difficult.

how is that bad, all strings are char lists in modern languages

Because people spend 30 minutes trying to learn it, and then give up because it's not a Fisher-Price language like JS, Python or Ruby.

its not bad unless you need performance, but at that point you call out to rust

>best
LOL it's been around for what, 25+ years and it still hasn't gained traction.

neither has your mum, what's your point?

Lisp was seen in industry though... then winter came.

/thread

Now that's just wrong!

Non strict semantics were a mistake.

Lack of proper parameterized modules too.

I'm bad with high level math. Should i try haskell anyway?

>not programming for fun

Rate my code
hailstones :: Int -> [Int]
hailstones n
| n < 1 = error "n must be >= 1"
| n == 1 = [1]
| even(n) = [n] ++ (hailstones (quot n 2))
| otherwise = [n] ++ (hailstones (n * 3 + 1))
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