Re: [Haskell-cafe] What *not* to use Haskell for

People have been admitting to using Haskell like that for quite a while now. I think it's an excellent use of Haskell as a DSEL host. -- Lennart On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:40 AM, wrote:

G'day all.

Quoting Tom Hawkins :

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Actually, Haskell is an excellent language for hard real-time applications. At Eaton we're using it for automotive powertrain control. Of course, the RTS is not running in the loop. Instead, we write in a DSL, which generates C code for our vehicle ECU.

Bingo! And thanks for someone for admitting that they do this. :-) "Hard real-time applications" is a huge area, and not all of the code that you write is code that ends up running on the target.

Generally, in DSL/MDD-style development, not very much of the code that you write ends up running on the target. In some cases, _none_ of the code you write ends up running on the target. Haskell is almost ideal for tasks like this.

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