kirk.martinez:
Hello, fellow Haskell hackers! I am writing a term paper on Haskell in Business, and while I have gathered a lot of good information on the Internet, I would really like direct feedback from software professionals who have used Haskell in a business setting. I would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to provide insights gained from applying Haskell in the real world. Who knows, this could lead to a greater adoption of Haskell in the business community!
Rather than a list of Haskell's technical strengths (purity, laziness, composition, etc.), I want to get a sense of the process leading up to the decision to use Haskell for a given project and the insights gained during and after completion. I am particularly interested in questions related to business value:
● What were the pros and cons you considered when choosing a language? Why FP? Why Haskell? ● What aspects of your problem domain were most critical to making that choice? ● How has using Haskell given you a competitive advantage? ● How is the software development lifecycle positively/negatively affected by using Haskell as opposed to a different language? ● How did you convince management to go with a functional approach? ● Was the relative scarcity of Haskell programmers a problem? If so, how was it managed? ● Would you choose to use Haskell again for a similar project given what you know now?
The best responses will not simply list answers, but also provide background and a bit of narrative on the project and insights gained. Feel free to reply to the list, or just to me personally if you prefer. My email is below.
I would also suggest you contact speakers from past CUFP meetings, who've written all sorts of interesting summaries on the use of Haskell (and other FP langs) in industry. http://cufp.galois.com/ -- Don