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		colanderman on Nov 15, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We need less powerful languages To be clear, I'm talking about the former (manipulating it as an opaque value). I've never seen a program (save esoteric Haskell ones) that did anything with functions that even approached requiring Turing-completeness.

codygman on Nov 15, 2015 [–]

Haskell isn't esoteric.

colanderman on Nov 15, 2015 | [–]

"Esoteric" applies to "programs", not "Haskell".

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