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		lelanthran on March 1, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Learn Haskell? (2018) > They toute the safety and maintainability for their choice, claiming it's the language of choice for banking institutions So is COBOL. Doesn't mean anything, really. Bankers' choices in tech probably has nothing to do with ideological/purity issues in software development.

exdsq on March 1, 2021 [–]

It's to do with the ability to formally reason about the code using formal methods/verification etc...

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