Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell not ready for Foo [was: Re: Hypothetical Haskell job in New York]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Don Stewart wrote:

wchogg:

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On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:32 AM, John A. De Goes wrote:

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Haskell's networking support is very rudimentary. Erlang's is quite sophisticated. For network intensive applications, especially those requiring messaging, fault-tolerance, distribution, and so forth, there's no doubt that Erlang is a more productive choice.

Not because of the language, per se, but because of all the stuff that is packaged with it, or available for it.

Now I understand that there aren't(?) any Haskell implementations that can act as distributed nodes the way the Erlang implementation can <snip> There's nothing stopping you using Haskell nodes in a distributed fashion, and indeed there are groups doing this.

Didn't realize it was charted territory. Sorry about that.