[Haskell-cafe] Where do you use Haskell?

robert dockins robdockins at fastmail.fm
Tue May 3 09:35:56 EDT 2005


> Hi all,
> 
> Again, I'm the new guy slowly learning this "fuctional programming" 
> thing. :-)

[snip]

> So, I'm tempted to conclude that FP is only applicable to situations 
> where user interaction is a small part of the program. For example, for 
> simulations.
> 
> Now, I'm sure I'm not the first person to have this train of thought. 
> And I'm sure there is a good answer why I'm wrong. :-) I'm eager to hear 
> what that might be.

You might want to check this out:

http://www.md.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.html



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