> The Haskell vs. everything else language war really is important though. What is remarkable about Haskell is that it builds upon bleeding edge programming la

> The Haskell vs. everything else language war really is important though. What is remarkable about Haskell is that it builds upon bleeding edge programming language research. While I think that Haskell vs. everyone else is just another language war, I find it a real pity that "mainstream" languages seem to categorically ignore everything that programming language and compiler research has come up with in the last 30 years. I'm still waiting for someone to find a sweet spot between Haskell and the more mainstream languages. A language that has a dynamic feel to it but is a statically typed (with type inference, of course) safe language that compiles to fast and efficient native code.