[Haskell-cafe] Re: Why functional programming matters

[Maarten Hazewinkel]

On 24 Jan 2008, at 10:45, Peter Hercek wrote:

> * safe STM
> ... and probably a lot of more goodies

Especially STM would be a good point to elaborate on.
Most big systems have issues around concurrency and state modification  
being broken.
Anything that can reliably solve that problem is going to interest  
serious programmers.


Maarten