Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a market that is poorly served by the incumbent languages for > which Haskell would be an absolute godsend?
Yes. Safety critical systems, encompassing everything from avionics to railway signalling equipment, to medical devices. These markets are relatively small / low-volume, with needs for high assurance, and better development times. However, despite these appealing characteristics, I would say Haskell is still currently unsuitable for those areas. * These tend to be embedded systems, with daunting memory, speed, and power-consumption limits. * Analysing and guaranteeing performance characteristics (time, memory) is something we still can't do well with Haskell. Note, this is not a question of raw speed, it is a question of hard guarantees to meet deadlines. In this field, a slow implementation that provably meets a deadline of 2ms is better than a fast implementation that claims a cycle time of .02ms, but cannot be shown to be failure-free. Regards, Malcolm _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell