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Peaker on Jan 22, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: When Haskell Is Not faster than C

I still didn't take the time to learn CT (after 4-5 years of Haskell). It might be time to do so, though, because I keep seeing the awesome things people with a CT background apply it to.

However, you can get very very far in Haskell without ever doing or touching any CT.

teamonkey on Jan 24, 2013 [–]

Yep, but mentioning it is extremely offputting to new users. And like you say it's simply not true.

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