Alberto G. Corona schrieb:
But many features need other features. For example, the option to use referential transparency will be common in future languages for multicore programming purposes. This creates the problem of separating side-effect-free code from side-effect code.
In C/C++ referential transparent functions code can be declared by appending a 'const' to the prototype, right?
I think that once the average programmer start to use one or two of these features, he will feel a bit frustrated if its language don´t have all the others, specially if he know haskell. Probably, he will use haskell for fun. This is the best way for the takeover of the industry, because this has been so historically.
Extrapolating the habit of programmers from the past to the future, I predict that Haskell can only become a mainstream language once there is a cleaner, simpler, safer and more powerful programming language than Haskell.