> > I love Haskell. It is my absolute favorite language.
> > But I have a very hard time finding places where I can actually use it!
>
> have you considered "your head" as such a place that should be easy to find.
An excellent reason. Haskell shines unusually brightly on
applications that have an algebraic structure. Laziness
relieves a plethora of sequencing concerns. I particularly
treasure one experience:
I asked a guru about the complexity of converting regular
expressions to finite-state automata without epsilon transitions
(state transitions that don't produce output). The best he
knew was O(n^3), which is the cost of removing epsilon transitions
from arbitrary automata. Then I wrote about a dozen lines of Haskell
to do the job--and running time turned out to be O(n^2). Once
I'd written the code, it became clear how to do it in other
languages, but I never would have found the theorem without
the help of Haskell. (This without even bringing in the heavy
artillery of higher-order functions and monads.)
Doug McIlroy