vigalchin:
Hello,
Frank mode on ... ;^) In terms of functionality, where is Haskell superior vs inferior to ML, Caml, OCaml, F#, Erlang, etc.? E.g. in terms of library functionality?
Without more information, all we can really do is an overview. There's almost 800 Haskell libraries on hackage.haskell.org (millions of lines of code). On average, 2 new libraries are released each day (though 12 new libs were released in the last 24 hours). That's 700 new libraries a year at the current rate. If I visit Arch Linux, I find, 602 Haskell libraries and tools, http://tinyurl.com/3jxlpl 21 OCaml libraries and tools, http://tinyurl.com/4fl485 7 Erlang libraries and tools, http://tinyurl.com/54oj7u 0 F# libraries and tools, http://tinyurl.com/4v53pl Of course, this is on Linux, and your distro may vary (and on Windows, F# gets to use all the .NET libraries), but you get the idea. One of the main themes that came out of the commercial users of FP meeting last week, http://cufp.galois.com was the need for languages to start building standard, blessed platforms of libraries, and to encourage reuse. Haskell was in the nice position of already having such a process underway, http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Platform Enjoy! -- Don