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So, if I need to write *now* a network application, should I *invest* in Haskell, or should I just *use* Erlang?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>You're in Haskell-Cafe... the bias is there already for Haskell.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Personally, I don't have experience doing network applications in Haskell, but I've got about a year's worth or more using Erlang, so for me it's a pretty easy choice, and I wouldn't pick Haskell today. </div>
<div><br></div><div>(hearing boos in the background as I type this...)</div><div><br></div><div>However, I would invest in learning to use Haskell, because my experience with Erlang has been that it really is pretty great, and has lovely features, like the ability to shell into a running process and poke around if something seems not quite right, or even to ssh into it if you run the right services. Plus there's tons of stuff pre-written for network applications that just comes with the Erlang distribution, meaning there's nothing else to install.... but even after all of that, I miss the type safety of Haskell, as it's really painful to do this in erlang</div>
<div><br></div><div>function(T1, T2, T3) when is_list(T1) and is_integer(T2) and is_integer(T3) -></div><div> ....function body</div><div><br></div><div>Even if you have a list, you don't know "what of" so you never really get the guarantees that you get when a Haskell program successfully compiles... That peace of mind is not easily won in Erlang, except by lots of testing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Dave</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br>
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As a counter example: I really don't like SQL.<br>
However I have to use it, if I don't want to re-implement a database by myself.<br>
The same can be said with Fortran.<br>
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Regards Manlio<br>
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