[Haskell-cafe] What is Haskell unsuitable for?

[Michael Snoyman]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Ivan Miljenovic
<ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 16 June 2010 15:45, Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info> wrote:
> > * aditya siram <aditya.siram at gmail.com> [2010-06-15 19:47:37-0400]
> >> Hi all,
> >> Haskell is a great language and in a lot of ways it still hasn't found a
> >> niche, but that's part of what is great about it.
> >>
> >> But I wanted to ask people are more experienced with Haskell - what
> kinds of
> >> problems is it unsuited for? Have you ever regretted using it for
> something?
> >> Meaning if you could write the program over you would do it in another
> >> language.
> >
> > This topic was already discussed on this list, you might want to search
> > the archives.
>
> Spoilsport! :p
>
> Next you'll say there's no need for anyone to ask whether they prefer
> vi or emacs... ;-)
>
> Of course *real* programmers use ed. It is the standard editor[1].

Michael

[1] http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html
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