Re: [Haskell-cafe] What *not* to use Haskell for

Dan Piponi wrote:

Real time audio applications are top of my list of "crazy projects I would work on if I had a month spare". I think it might work out nicely. My approach wouldn't be to talk directly to audio hardware from Haskell but instead use a framework like Lava to generate low level code from an embedded DSL. I think that would be a really elegant way to work at a high level and yet have the result execute *faster* than traditionally written C++ code.

In other words, Haskell is an excellent language for designing special-purpose compilers and interpretters for custom languages. ;-) If I knew a damned thing about IA32 assembly and dynamic linkage, I'd be tempted to try it myself...