> > - Concerns about support and maintenance. Those bright developers may > > not be around in the long term. > > This seems to be a hen & egg problem. > Students do not study functional programming deeply because it seems > irrelevant to finding a job. Decision makers, on the other hand, either > have never heard of FP or are aware that there are not enough people > familiar with it and so there are natural concerns about maintenance.
On the other hand, a project is much more likely to succeed if bright developpers are involved. Using haskell is a very good way to attract bright developpers. Hence, a project is much more likely to succeeds if it uses haskell. This is exemplified by the Pugs project. Cheers, JP. _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
