Re: [Haskell-cafe] How Albus Dumbledore would sell Haskell

Seth Gordon wrote:

I think a more powerful argument would be to talk about cases where Haskell is *actually being used* industrially. E.g., "these folks at Credit Suisse are using Haskell for their analytics because in their line of work, if the implementation of the code doesn't match up perfectly with the spec, their employer could lose millions of dollars, and the programmers might not notice the bug until those millions were long gone".

Indeed, hence the Haskell Communities and Activities Report http://www.haskell.org/communities/, Commerial Uses of Function Programming (CUFP) http://cufp.galois.com/, and the new category of Experience Report http://icfp07.eecs.harvard.edu/cfp.html#experience at ICFP.