[Haskell-cafe] Why Not Haskell?

[Bjorn Bringert]

On Aug 4, 2006, at 11:10 PM, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

> Friday, August 4, 2006, 8:17:42 PM, you wrote:
>
>> 1) Haskell is too slow for practical use, but the benchmarks I found
>> appear to contradict this.
>
> it's an advertisement :D  just check yourself
>
>> 2) Input and output are not good enough, in particular for graphical
>> user interfacing and/or data base interaction. But it seems there are
>> several user interfaces and SQL and other data base interfaces for
>> Haskell, even though the tutorials don't seem to cover this.
>
> i've seen a paper which lists 7 (as i remember) causes of small
> Haskell popularity, including teaching, libraries, IDEs and so on. may
> be someone will give us the url

Is this the paper you are referring to?

Philip Wadler. Why no one uses functional languages. ACM SIGPLAN  
Notices, 33(8):23--27, 1998.
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/wadler98why.html

/Björn