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# Inside the Cult of the Haskell Programmer

**[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Learn about Haskell, a language admired for its intellectual and aesthetic appeal. Haskell is more of a cult classic than a widely adopted language, but it has influenced the design of other imperative languages. Its functional programming paradigm offers benefits such as bug prevention, program correctness, and easy parallel computation.

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Tags: [#functional-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/functional-programming), [#haskell](https://daily.dev/tags/haskell), [#language-design](https://daily.dev/tags/language-design)

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