&gt;  I would like to see examples of the language actually doing something useful.<p>A Haskell program I wrote to find and match subtitle files for a particular release of the movie I have.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackage.haskell.org&#x2F;package&#x2F;hastily" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackage.haskell.org&#x2F;package&#x2F;hastily</a>