Why not haskell?

Mark Carroll mark@chaos.x-philes.com
Tue, 9 Sep 2003 11:21:06 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Nick Name wrote:

> I am just curios to hear from people who do not use haskell for project
> releases, or just think it's not suitable for a mature project, what
> exactly they find bad in current haskell implementations, or perhaps in
> the standard.

We're not really there yet, but we're likely to have to code stuff that
works fast, guaranteed, with low overhead - for instance, in real-time
embedded systems for military sensor data processing. I don't know where
Haskell currently is, but I'm far from certain that it's up to that task.

-- Mark