[Haskell-cafe] Re: can Haskell do everyting as we want?

In my experience two of the biggest issues in selecting any language are the pool of potential programmers and the learning curve for the programmers you already have. If you only need two programmers to do a project and they both know Haskell well, then I think Haskell would do almost any job very well. I also think that the pool of potential Haskell programmers is growing. But it is still much smaller than many other languages. I do think that there is a larger learning curve for Haskell than moving from one imperative language (eg. PHP) to another one (eg. Ruby). In my view Haskell programmers are likely to be more productive and produce more correct (and possibly even more efficient) code once they know the language well. Kevin On Aug 4, 4:35 pm, David Leimbach wrote:

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote:

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Just to clarify,  I mean: Haskell may be seriously addictive.  Sounds like a joke, but it is not.  I do not recommend it for coding something quick and dirty.

I use it for quick and dirty stuff all the time, mainly because what I want is often something that can be broken down into stages of processing, and pure functions are really nice for that.

If I know the input is coming from a reliable enough stream (like a unix pipe to stdin) I can use functions like "interact" to create filters, or parse some input, and produce some output.

It's pretty nice.

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2010/8/4 Alberto G. Corona

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2010/8/4 Zura_

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As already noted here, Haskell is a general purpose language, but you should take it with a grain of salt. For instance, you can nail with a laptop (provided that you hit the place where a HDD is located), but you prefer a hammer :) One thing is if you do it only for enjoyment, in this case you can even develop 3D shooter game in Haskell, but when it comes to production/real world use, I think it is better to maintain "right tool for the right job" attitude.

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Regards, Zura

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Qi Qi-2 wrote:

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Is there anyone happen to come into any tasks that haskell is not able to achieve?

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