Hello Wolfgang, Tuesday, December 06, 2005, 10:16:08 PM, you wrote:
so, in my feel, Haskell is better in areas where there is no standard quick-and-dirty solutions and all languages are in equal conditions, but it can't compete with Visual Basic in user interfaces, Erlang in distributed processing, and Python in scripting
WJ> Well, I would say that this has nothing to do with the language as such but WJ> with a current lack of certain libraries. I even think that with appropriate WJ> libraries, Haskell will often have advantages over the existing solutions. of course, the main problem is libraries. the second problem is frameworks (like Delphi, which i also love). the third-priority problem is language itself. in particular, i hate Haskell school of imperative manipulations: x' <- readIORef x y' <- readIORef y writeIORef z (x'*y') i already sayed about lacking of OOP features. another weakness against Erlang and scripting languages is their more dynamic character which sometimes is more appropriate, especially in scripting, web pages and other applets -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@HotPOP.com