Hello Johan, Friday, August 11, 2006, 4:43:27 PM, you wrote:
> Haskell was mentioned in an article called "Why Exotic Languages Are > Not Mainstream" on the blog defmacro.org the other day and I thought > maybe someone would be interested (i.e. is procrastinating at work and > need an excuse to do something else). Any comments? > http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/not-ready.html i'm 100% agree with this article. imho Haskell is not ready for _application_ programming mainly because of 3 issues: - lack of specialists (and this means lack of teaching, training, books) - lack of IDE/RAD tools (this includes debugging, visual construction of GUI+DB part of program and so on) - lack of variety of libraries (application programmers want to have many libraries pre-written) imvho, these issues are less important for system programming (such as creating of web server or CMS system), so Haskell, with all its features, now is a great tool for system programming. for example, i've written zip-like tool with ghc -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
