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So, I went to Video Games Live on Saturday. It rocked. Symphonic Pong is, in a word, awesome.

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Have you ever struggled with your data types? Ever had pages and pages of boilerplate for trivial conversions? How about checking every member function you were going to use so as not to throw an exception later? I sure have. There doesn’t seem to be a language out there that doesn’t frustrate me in at least one of these areas. Except Haskell.

Now, I can’t say that the situation won’t change as I write more in Haskell. I really liked C++’s type system until I got to know it. I’ll try to go easy on the fanboy-ism and stick to an overview of what I see that I like.

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Imma gonna learn Haskell.

You may ask “Why Haskell?”
Good question, let’s go over a few points.

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