I use Haskell for everything. In fact, I will be approaching my 10 year anniversary of using Haskell as my primary development language soon.
The only area I have had any trouble with Haskell is doing realtime music synthesis. And only because the garbage collector is not realtime friendly. That is not unfixable though. However, I am thinking that the best way to do realtime synthesis with Haskell is to use it to create a DSL that uses LLVM to create code at runtime so that the realtime code is outside the scope of the normal RTS and garbage collector. Aside from being a 'hack' to get around the garbage collector, this could actually provide better performance than low-level C/ASM by allowing very specialized code to be generated at runtime in response to configuration changes. This concept was explored with some success in Synthesis OS: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SynthesisOs (a general purpose unix-like OS, the synthesis in the name is referring to the runtime code generation for OS services, not music). The other area I have found Haskell to sometimes fall short is when I want even stronger guarantees from the type system. For those instances, I want something more like Agda or Epigram, not something weaker like Java/C++. - jeremy On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Qi Qi <qiqi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As more I learn haskell, I am more interested in this function > programming language. I am intended to more focus on haskell than other > languages like python, Java, or C++. But I am still wonder whether haskell > can do everyting > as other languages do, such as python, perl, Java and C++. > > Is there anyone happen to come into any tasks that haskell is not able > to achieve? > > Thanks. > > -- > Qi Qi > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
