On Aug 4, 2006, at 11:10 PM, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Friday, August 4, 2006, 8:17:42 PM, you wrote:
1) Haskell is too slow for practical use, but the benchmarks I found
appear to contradict this.
it's an advertisement :D just check yourself
2) Input and output are not good enough, in particular for graphical
user interfacing and/or data base interaction. But it seems there are
several user interfaces and SQL and other data base interfaces for
Haskell, even though the tutorials don't seem to cover this.
i've seen a paper which lists 7 (as i remember) causes of small
Haskell popularity, including teaching, libraries, IDEs and so on. may
be someone will give us the url
Is this the paper you are referring to?
Philip Wadler. Why no one uses functional languages. ACM SIGPLAN
Notices, 33(8):23--27, 1998.
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/wadler98why.html
/Björn
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