[Haskell-cafe] Re: killer app, again

[Johann Höchtl]

On Dec 10, 2:38 pm, Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.zigans... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Sebastian,
>
> Thursday, December 10, 2009, 4:27:49 PM, you wrote:
>
> > The killer app for that, IMO, is parallelism these days
>
> btw, are you seen Google App Engine? it's python/java ATM, but i think
> that haskell will be ideal fit there. it's all about
> computations-in-cloud, or more precisely hosting-in-a-cloud, like
> Amazon EC2
>
I think the first language which would come to mind, is acutally
Erlang. As a cloud server process and cloud database backend might be
physically distributed, it's more logical to send messages between
them asynchronously, than share state in parallel. But yes, Haskell
fit's this pattern well, through the Control.Concurrent library.

> so, both individual cpus and largest servers now are multi-threaded,
> it just need some time so EC2/GAP developers will realize Haskell
> potential
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Zigans... at gmail.com
>
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