[Haskell-cafe] OS design & FP aesthetics

[Andrew Coppin]

Creighton Hogg wrote:
>
>     (Also, have you noticed that no large Haskell applications exist? It's
>     very hard to convince people that Haskell is not a "toy" language when
>     no large applications exist. Building an entire *OS* with it would
>     rather satisfy that requirement...!)
>
>
> Well, I imagine that there are large applications being used at places 
> like Galois or Credit Suisse that are just proprietary.  As for open 
> source, I guess the largest application is probably GHC itself.

GHC is certainly the only large application that *I* can think of...

I don't know. It seems that Erlang is slowly taking over the world and 
all the rest of it, but you never hear anything about Haskell. Shame, 
really...

>
>     To me, C is the pinacle of everything that is wrong with computer
>     programming.
>
>
> At this point I can only say that we disagree and bow out of this tangent.

"Tangent" I will agree on. ;-)