Haskell: The Bad Parts, part 1 Published October 28, 2020 There's a popular book called JavaScript: The Good Parts. And there's a common meme around the relative size of that book versus JavaScript: The Definitive Guide. Haskell is, in my opinion, a far more well designed and coherent language than JavaScript. However, it's also an old language with some historical baggage. In many ways, it's a bl