[Haskell-cafe] Project postmortem II /Haskell vs. Erlang/

[Joel Reymont]

Simon,

Please see this post for an extended reply:

http://wagerlabs.com/articles/2006/01/01/haskell-vs-erlang-reloaded

	Thanks, Joel

On Dec 29, 2005, at 8:22 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> | Using Haskell for this networking app forced me to focus on all the
> | issues _but_ the business logic. Type constraints, binary IO and
> | serialization, minimizing memory use and fighting laziness, timers,
> | tweaking concurrency and setting up message channels, you name it.
>
> That's a disappointing result.  Mostly I think Haskell lets you
> precisely focus on the logic of your program, because lots else is  
> taken
> care of behind the scenes.  You found precisely the reverse.
>
> It'd be interesting to understand which of these issues are
> 	- language issues
> 	- library issues
> 	- compiler/run-time issues
>
> My (ill-informed) hypothesis is that better libraries would have  
> solved
> much of your problems.  A good example is a fast, generic  
> serialisation
> library.
>
> If you felt able (sometime) to distil your experience under headings
> like the above, only more concretely and precisely, I think it might
> help to motivate Haskellers to start solving them.

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