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		cies on May 4, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I tried Haskell for 5 years C'mon. Funny joke, but not fair when taken serious. Or what "trivial problems are the subject of ongoing academic research" in Haskell?

awj on May 4, 2017 [–]

When you consider "trivial" to mean "only if you ignore all kinds of edge cases that most languages implicitly ignore" ... then Haskell has plenty of paper-worthy trivial problems.

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