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> From what little I've used Haskell, the strings-as-list paradigm was exceptionally useful.

It's useful from a convenience of programming point of view. The preferred underlying implementation is now something more sophisticated than a linked list of characters. See Data.ByteString. The programmer does not need to care much, though.




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