[Haskell-cafe] Re: What *not* to use Haskell for

Stefan Monnier monnier at iro.umontreal.ca
Wed Nov 12 16:11:34 EST 2008


> So I should clarify I'm not a troll and do "see the Haskell light". But
> one thing I can never answer when preaching to others is "what does
> Haskell not do well?"

The most obvious cases where Haskell does not do well, for me:

- When you feed it Java code.  Incidentally, the same holds when you
  feed it C code.

- When you try to write a malloc library.


        Stefan



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