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shared by Javier Neira on 11 Jan 10 - Cached

Haskell is not a programmable programming language (unless you look at extensions like template Haskell) but there are enough abstractions in Haskell to easily build domain specific languages with it.
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But, the idea of time, the idea of sequencing can be built upon a purely functional system and we are led to monads
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Monad are the recognition that the idea of sequencing operations can be formalized in a purely functional language.
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The monad is an abstraction allowing to create new control structures and, in associations with the powerful type system of Haskell which makes possible elegant overloading of operators, it is possible to easily build new abstractions that allow to customize the programming language.
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Unfortunately, Lisp, Smalltalk and Haskell are too different from most programming languages currently used in industry and taught in schools. They really look like alien technology to most developpers.
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