On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:13 PM, John A. De Goes
If you have counterexamples, then perhaps you can name them. I'm looking for Java shops with 5+ developers and code bases of > 100k converting over to Haskell. I don't know _any such shop_ that has switched to Haskell, and I doubt any exist, but I'd be delighted to learn I'm wrong.
Let me ask you this question: how long would it take you to get an HTML/CSS, W3 compliant browser in Haskell? Or how about a peer-to-peer networking system with seamless scaling and automatic failover? How about a scalable BigTable implementation? In Java, the answer to these questions -- and just about any others you can think of -- is "a few minutes", because the code has already been written.
Well, as far as browser goes, this is a start: http://github.com/snoyberg/hack-handler-webkit. It may not be written in pure Haskell, but then again I'm not sure if there are any fully W3 compliant browsers *not* written in C++. Michael