Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why are OCaml and Haskell being used at these companies?

Functional programming languages are now much more widely used in industry, primarily because they offer substantial productivity improvements (roughly 10x) over C++ and Java and, consequently, are much more cost effective.

Do you have any references for this?

Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e

Tim Newsham http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/