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

Manlio Perillo wrote:

Unfortunately Haskell is not yet ready for this task.

Could you -- or someone else -- please elaborate on this? I've heard it once in the context of a webbrowser, the reason given was that ghc doesn't deallocate memory, that is, the gc heap only increases. I doubt it'd be hard to fix, not to mention that, iff a Haskell process is more or less the only process running on a system, deallocation becomes practically irrelevant... which'd be the case with e.g. a HAppS production server. Any other known problems? -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or quoting of this signature prohibited.