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

Malcolm Wallace malcolm.wallace at cs.york.ac.uk
Wed Nov 12 17:11:06 EST 2008


>>  "what does Haskell not do well?"
>
> - When you feed it Java code.  Incidentally, the same holds when you
>  feed it C code.


I've heard that Haskell's new (developed in this year's GSoC)  
Language.C libraries were able to parse millions of lines of C code  
from the Linux kernel, including many gcc extensions, without a single  
error.  That doesn't sound too shabby to me.

Regards,
     Malcolm



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