With respect to the theological view of the question; this is always painful to me.— I am bewildered.— I had no intention to write atheistically. But I own that I cannot see, as plainly as others do, & as I should wish to do, evidence of design & beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the Haskell world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the Haskell with recursive data structure yet leave the maximal size of tuples to arbitrary implementation details, have a restrictive typing system that would not include dependent types, or force the hand of the programmer to use the bang operator to manage memory manually to avoid consequences of laziness.
Not believing this, I see no necessity in the belief that the Haskell was expressly designed.
