Well for instance in game development we cover a number of different
computational and creative roles. Being able to design languages that serve
game development easily is a plus, or creating a solid backend
infrastructure. The general tool is often a poor fit.
And sometimes computational systems just have to be extremely efficient,
especially on lowest common denominator targets. This is another good place
for a DSL or some sort of automatic code generation, in which case Haskell
can become like lisp on steroids for spitting out code consumed elsewhere.
Cheers,
Darren
On May 15, 2014 10:21 PM, "Magnus Therning"
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 01:35:20AM +0200, Darren Grant wrote:
Magnus, did you notice the Alan Kay quote that was generated for your sig? Serendipitous. :-)
Well spotted, I didn't notice it. Serendipitous indeed!
Haskell subsumes a great deal of semantics from many programming models. This is not to say that it is necessarily a productive end-tool replacement, but many have discovered that it is a great language to build such tools with.
I'm convinced it IS a productive replacement in a surprising number of cases. It's just so irritating how entrenched the use of C/C++ is in the circles I move :(
/M
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I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay