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I stopped looking for perfect code after I saw the fail man page, and saw that the one on my computer was at version 4.something.

Yes, the Haskell's Prelude is perfect when matched with an (artificial) specification that requires exactly it. Yet, on practice I don't think I ever saw any Haskeller that does not want to add or remove something from it. Partial functions are almost unanimously disliked, ditto for String functions; not to say about the universal complaints in how it is badly generalized.




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