I don't really think mass adoption is a goal for Haskell. It's still a really inspiring system, and I've seen it bring a lot of people into contact with the ric

I don't really think mass adoption is a goal for Haskell. It's still a really inspiring system, and I've seen it bring a lot of people into contact with the rich traditions of pure functional programming and the use of algebra in code. Which is pretty cool, even if some people think it's irritating when these people write excited blog posts about a concept they find trivial, like monads. I linked to a paper about composing monoids to build a graphics library. For me that particular paper was, years ago, one of the most interesting things I'd seen on how to structure programs. Maybe this whole experiment with using algebraic concepts in programming is a dead end, and maybe it is even just a way for a bunch of nerds to feel smart. But it seems like a pretty valuable tradition to me. There probably wouldn't be "computation expressions" in F# if it hadn't been for Moggi and the Haskell gang. Sure it's great that we can take these concepts and rebrand them to make them nice and cuddly (although "computation expression" is no paragon of simple english). Blah blah blah. I'm kinda tired of the programming forum dialectics...