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The advanced parts of most languages can get hairy. Don't mistake familiarity with complexity. Even Java has hard, dense code that is difficult to work with and learn.

I tend to stay away from the advanced parts of Haskell when writing BLOBS.

The advanced stuff is there when you need to write libraries that need generic code that works with types you haven't defined yourself. You learn it as you go when you need to.

But when I'm writing BLOBS I mostly stick to using libraries and that's pretty straight-forward.



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