Why not haskell?

Christopher Milton cmiltonperl@yahoo.com
Tue, 9 Sep 2003 08:54:57 -0700 (PDT)


--- Mark Carroll <mark@chaos.x-philes.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Nick Name wrote:
> 
> > I am just curios to hear from people who do not use haskell for project
> > releases, or just think it's not suitable for a mature project, what
> > exactly they find bad in current haskell implementations, or perhaps in
> > the standard.
> 
> We're not really there yet, but we're likely to have to code stuff that
> works fast, guaranteed, with low overhead - for instance, in real-time
> embedded systems for military sensor data processing. I don't know where
> Haskell currently is, but I'm far from certain that it's up to that task.

What about Embedded Gofer? ;-) "Lambdas in the Liftshaft"
by Malcolm Wallace.

Then there's the DARPA-funded Project Timber at OGI:
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/PacSoft/projects/Timber/Default.htm

Chris Milton