On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:02 PM, John A. De Goes
On Jan 8, 2009, at 12:56 PM, Tim Newsham wrote:
You replied to someone discussing using Haskell at a CDN to implement things like web servers by saying that Haskell wasn't suitable for the task.
That is incorrect. I replied to Achim's message asking for elaboration on Haskell's unsuitability. It was a convenient point to discuss Haskell's networking deficiencies.
Part of the problem I'm having with this discussion, though, is that it's still not clear to me what critical features are lacking. I know you've said Haskell doesn't have anything quite like the Erlang OTP library, but that doesn't really help me much. I've only looked a little at OTP & I don't think I understand what you get from its behaviors that you don't get from Control.Concurrent + mtl, i.e. various forms of state & error handling independent of the concurrency underneath. Can you elucidate a bit more? I don't want the conversation to degenerate.