“Haskell is like a programming language from an alternate future that is never going to happen,” he says. “It solves all these problems it promises to solve.

Haskell is a 25-year-old programming language that isn't all that popular. But Facebook uses it, and that's a sign of things to come.

Frege, named after the German mathematician Gottlob Frege, is a purely functional, strongly typed language for the JVM that is so similar to Haskell that “most idiomatic Haskell code will run ...

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