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Haskell is the language in which the lion's share of pure functional programming language research is done. So it is "leading" in the sense of "being the first place new ideas are tried".


> Haskell is the language in which the lion's share

But also more popular on:

* Tiobe; GitHub; Reddit; Transparent Language Rankings; IRC; Workshop size; Number of libraries...

Community matters.


Isn't this a little too marketing-ish way to describe a language that dominates the small niche of purely functional programming languages?

I agree Haskell is important, but so is objectivity. Marketing spin gets in the way.




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