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> Even worse than the problem of uncommon concepts as monads

Just go ahead and learn the typeclass hierarchy and such-- it really is quite a useful higher level of abstraction in whatever language you choose. And it definitely will enter the mainstream (even more than is already has [Swift, Scala & C# all have monadic constructs]).

> Haskell's memory footprint is extremely hard to reason about.

And you'd probably want to also throw runtime in there as well.

I think this is relative-- it's not "extremely hard" for everyone. Also, many structured programmers found object orientation "extremely hard" but somehow the industry managed to progress through that era.



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