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What is a reasonable justification for lazy evaluation potentially making REASONING ABOUT PERFORMANCE (specifically, memory usage and exactly when a computation happens) somewhat trickier in Haskell compared to a strictly/eagerly-evaluated language, despite lazy evaluation's other benefits?
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What is a reasonable justification for lazy evaluation potentially making REASONING ABOUT PERFORMANCE (specifically, memory usage and exactly when a computation happens) somewhat trickier in Haskell compared to a strictly/eagerly-evaluated language, despite lazy evaluation's other benefits?
What is a reasonable justification for Haskell being commonly used in ACADEMIC and RESEARCH settings, given its strong theoretical foundations (drawing heavily from category theory and formal type theory)?
What is a reasonable justification for Haskell's design encouraging developers to precisely model a domain's valid states using ALGEBRAIC DATA TYPES (Haskell's term for its version of discriminated unions/sum types, combined with product types like records), similarly to the "illegal states unrepresentable" philosophy also associated with languages like F#?
What is a "type class" in Haskell (like the built-in `Eq`, `Ord`, or `Show` type classes), and how does it relate to (but differ from) an interface in a more traditional object-oriented language?
What is a reasonable way "referential transparency" (a formal property closely associated with Haskell's purity) relates to the practical benefit of being able to safely CACHE or MEMOIZE the result of a function call?
What does it mean that Haskell is "purely" functional, and how does this differ from a "functional-first" language (like F# or Clojure) that still allows mutable state/side effects relatively freely?
What is "lazy evaluation" in Haskell, and how does it differ from the "eager" (strict) evaluation strategy most mainstream languages use by default?
What is the significance of Haskell's STRONG, STATIC type system (including its type inference capability), and what class of errors does it aim to catch at compile time rather than runtime?
What is a reasonable justification for a company specifically choosing to use Haskell for an internal tool or a component of a larger, mostly-non-Haskell system, rather than adopting Haskell wholesale across their entire technology stack?
What is a "typeclass constraint" in a Haskell function signature (like `Eq a => a -> a -> Bool`), and what does it let a generic function express about the requirements on its type parameter?
What is a reasonable way the broader trend of MAINSTREAM languages adopting features originally pioneered/popularized by Haskell (like strong type inference, pattern matching, or Option/Maybe-style types for representing absent values) reflects Haskell's influence on the broader programming language landscape, even among developers who've never directly used Haskell itself?
What is a reasonable justification for Haskell's purity (side effects tracked explicitly in the type system) making EQUATIONAL REASONING about code more straightforward, compared to a language where any function might have hidden side effects?