On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:13 PM, John A. De Goes <j...@n-brain.net> wrote:
> > If you have counterexamples, then perhaps you can name them. I'm looking > for Java shops with 5+ developers and code bases of > 100k converting over > to Haskell. I don't know _any such shop_ that has switched to Haskell, and I > doubt any exist, but I'd be delighted to learn I'm wrong. > > Let me ask you this question: how long would it take you to get an > HTML/CSS, W3 compliant browser in Haskell? Or how about a peer-to-peer > networking system with seamless scaling and automatic failover? How about a > scalable BigTable implementation? In Java, the answer to these questions -- > and just about any others you can think of -- is "a few minutes", because > the code has already been written. > > Well, as far as browser goes, this is a start: http://github.com/snoyberg/hack-handler-webkit. It may not be written in pure Haskell, but then again I'm not sure if there are any fully W3 compliant browsers *not* written in C++. Michael
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