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Some of the most fanatic Haskell supporters I have met have been university professors that have not written a single line of "production" code in their life. T
by bostand 10y ago
Some of the most fanatic Haskell supporters I have met have been university professors that have not written a single line of "production" code in their life. They thought Haskell would eventually rule the programming world because <insert cute language feature>.
- majewsky 10y agoThat matches up quite nicely with what the article says. Haskell is well-suited for applications that have complicated computations going on inside of them, but which provide a relatively small surface to the impure world outside the program ("CRUD apps", as the author notes). And universities are a place where you come across a lot of computationally difficult problems. (Case in point: I learned Haskell in a lab course called "Haskell for Natural Language Processing", and the instructor noted that the NLP group does all their programming in Haskell.)