On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:32:53PM -0400, Ian Darwin wrote: > > For operating system code, yes. But for some stuff -- I mean > > real-world stuff like web applications -- languages like haskell > > or even lisp are probably more appropriate than C (and Haskell, > > Lisp and C are more appropriate than Java or PHP). > > Obviously. That's why so many real-world web sites are written > in Lisp, and so few are written in Java and PHP...
If you prefer, web site are developed in java or php, because of the human cost. For "serious" code, it's much easier to find students who know only how to code in Java. For "cheap" code, it's much easier to find future students desperate for some internship/a bit of money that will write quick&dirty php. So, you end up with a huge corpus of code in java/or php, and then lazy people come around, and reuse that. It used to be perl. Pity it's no longer. It could be smalltalk. Seaside is great. It could be C++ or haskell, except that about nobody speaks those languages... Pray it doesn't become C# and silverlight...
