There is no pendulum swing - Haskell remains a niche - C and its off springs are still mainstream. Have you ever checked statistics? http://www.tiobe.com/index

There is no pendulum swing - Haskell remains a niche - C and its off springs are still mainstream. Have you ever checked statistics? http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.... http://www.langpop.com/ http://www.langpop.com/ C still remains the only accessible low level language to do systems programming. C compilers have been optimizing for long.