[Haskell-cafe] Haskell not ready for Foo [was: Re: Hypothetical Haskell job in New York]

[Tim Newsham]

> The number of applications requiring the implementation of a custom web 
> server is an insignificant fraction of the number of applications requiring a 
> messaging system. I don't think anyone would dispute Haskell's ability to do 
> low-level, raw networking, of the type that few people actually need to do. 
> It's the higher level stuff where there's a huge amount of room for 
> improvement.

You replied to someone discussing using Haskell at a CDN to implement
things like web servers by saying that Haskell wasn't suitable for
the task.

> John

Tim Newsham
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/