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xmonad also comes to mind.

But you're talking more about products than programming languages. Haskell contributed a LOT to programming theory.

Your every day coding is most likely using things coming directly from Haskell without you knowing it.




jQuery and Javascript Promises comes to mind, I know they started in C++ put they are practically Monads.


Since when did monads become a synonym for Haskell?


You really need to learn monads to use Haskell, and it's one of the major barriers for newcomers. It's no different from pointers in C.


Since 2000 tutorials emphasizing them as the gist of Haskell programming...


I think you mean one specific kind of a Monad.




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