Haskell is equally suited to backend web development as Python, Ruby, or JavaScript. Just look at Yesod. There's nothing about Haskell that makes it worse for w

Haskell is equally suited to backend web development as Python, Ruby, or JavaScript. Just look at Yesod. There's nothing about Haskell that makes it worse for web development, and a lot that makes it better. For what it's worth, Haskell has uses in finance for statistical modeling because you can model different currencies and equities/derivatives with ADTs and the type system will ensure you never confuse them in your code. Haskell syntax is beautiful and in many cases mimics mathematical syntax and as such is used frequently by mathematicians. But I don't mean this to be a defense of Haskell. There are many posts that do it better, just yesterday there was a blog post on the front page about one startup's use of Haskell in its main product: http://baatz.io/posts/haskell-in-a-startup/ http://baatz.io/posts/haskell-in-a-startup/ There are other languages like Lisp that directly imitate lambda calculus. Lisp is elegant because it is like programming in a syntax tree with the entire structure of the tree available for manipulation such that you can create extremely concise and expressive programs with less code.