Development tools for OO now are as good as smalltalk-80. I expect the benefits of FP to be widely adopted in industry by 2020. XSLT is kind of cool and taking off. Not exactly functional but there is no destructive assignment. A lot of the things Haskell excells at (IMO) inferior tools are being used in place. For example, microsoft has build good XSLT translators and two new compilers (C#, VB7) in the last couple years. Unfortunately, C#, not Haskell, will probably be "the" language for the next decade. Fortunately, C++ will not be the language of the next decade.
-----Original Message----- From: Christian Lescher [mailto:christian@lescher.de] Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 10:14 PM To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Will Haskell be commercialized in the future?
In my opinion there are many more real world problems, that can be most efficiently solved with functional languages like Haskell, as (software) industry can think of at the moment; they only know their C/C++, Java, etc. but can't even think of the power of functional programming or at least don't take languages like Haskell for full. (Of corse, there are exceptions to the rule, too.)
What do you think: Will Haskell (the related compilers/tools) be "commercialized" in the future?
Christian
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