Malcolm Wallace wrote:
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.
Well, the market is growing and not that small. ;-) Think of mobile
phones and cars, for instance, they are "full" of embedded computers.
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.
Well, is it a problem to make GC a deterministic task or there is a
problem that a program may run out of memory unpredictably? Can you be
more explicit, or link to some article?
Regards
Dusan
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