I'm absolutely missing your point. Here's an example. I'm a commercial developer. I need to create an SNMP agent. You show me Haskell, I point at Erlang. Erlang wins for time to market, and Haskell doesn't get to be part of the solution.
We need libraries. On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Alberto G. Corona <agocor...@gmail.com>wrote: > IMHO, the software industry is no driven by workforce or by stocked stuff > like libraries. It is driven by ideas. People with ideas tend to use the > tools that materialize these ideas in their free time faster and better, > with joy and beauty, It comes to my mind the first Jazz players that > invented a new tradition, choose to play sax and trumpets because these > instruments were easier to learn, small, very expressive, portable and > brighting. Sometimes a long tradition of doing things in a certain way is an > obstacle for innovation. If you think that Haskell can not compete with the > tons of boring stuff for doing the same boring applications then you missed > the point > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
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