Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:59:24 +0000, dsimcha wrote: > == Quote from retard (r...@tard.com.invalid)'s article >> >>> 2. a research project (Haskell) >> >> >> >> Haskell stopped being a research project many years ago, Haskell >> >> development now happens in companies (including Microsoft) as much >> >> as in universities and is about creating good examples of software >> >> engineering. Research languages are things like X10, Chapel, OCaml, >> >> C ++. >> > >> > It still was designed as a research project. It even says so in the >> > Haskell 98 report: >> > >> > "The committee intended that Haskell would serve as a basis for >> > future research in language design, and hoped that extensions or >> > variants of the language would appear, incorporating experimental >> > features." -- Haskell98 >> Something has happened. There are few enterprises using Haskell and the >> GHC compiler is rather stable after years of development effort. There >> are also truckloads of bindings to various libraries and many libraries >> written in Haskell. >> I guess it's terribly hard to get rid of the 'ivory tower' stigma. What >> do you think is missing? They have: >> * a good compiler (more mature than dmd) * large set of libraries >> (more than d, seriously more than d2) * an active community (larger >> and more talented than d programmers) * research papers (does anyone >> have any idea if a single academic >> conference paper has ever been written about d?) >> * website (better than digitalmars.com) * a well defined language > > Multiple paradigms are what's missing. I refuse to consider any > language that adheres so rigidly to a single paradigm as anything more > than an ivory tower research project, no matter what. In the real world > no one paradigm suits every problem, or even every small subproblem. I > emphasize the small subproblem part because it implies that using > multiple languages isn't they answer.
Right, that's a reasonable explanation. E.g. Java only supports procedural and object-oriented programming. The frameworks and tools supplement that with metaprogramming and aspect oriented programming (all kinds of code generators such as IDEs). That seems to be enough for most developers.
