Hans Aberg, you wrote:
> I would rather think that the reason that functional languages are not
> used is the lack of an ISO/ANSI standard, plus the lack of standard ways of
> making cooperation with other, imperative languages.
Of these two reasons, I don't think the first has much weight at all.
C++ doesn't have an ISO/ANSI standard, yet C++ does seem to be pretty
widely used in industry. The same is true for Delphi.
(Well, Delphi is not used nearly as much as C++, but it is probably
used much much more than Haskell.)
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