andrewcoppin:
So I should clarify I'm not a troll and do "see the Haskell light". But one thing I can never answer when preaching to others is "what does Haskell not do well?"
Usually I'll avoid then question and explain that it is a 'complete' language and we do have more than enough libraries to make it useful and productive. But I'd be keen to know if people have any anecdotes, ideally ones which can subsequently be twisted into an argument for Haskell ;)
Anything with hard performance requirements, and/or that needs to run on tiny computational resources (CPU speed, RAM size, etc.)
I'd say "device drivers" too, except that the House guys apparently managed to do this...
I'd really love to tell everybody that "Haskell is *the* language of algorithms" - except that it tends to not be very performant.
Depends on who's writing the Haskell in my experience. GHC's a perfectly capable compiler if you feed it the proper diet. -- Don (Board member of the "Don't think linked lists are the same as UArr Double" movement)