RE: Multithreaded stateful software

| (c) Haskell's monads, concurrency stuff and TCP/IP libraries | are really quite powerful and useful, and I'll be happy I | picked Haskell for the task. Definitely (c). See Simon Marlow's paper about his experience of writing a web server (highly concurrent), and my tutorial "Tackling the awkward squad". Both at http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/marktoberdorf.htm Haskell is a great language for writing concurrent applications. Simon