Why hasn't Haskell taken over the world? And the curious case of Go

Re:Why hasn't Haskell taken over the world? And the curious ... by mark_l_watson on Saturday January 21, 2017 @02:34PM (#13451646)

Haskell is one of my favorite languages and just wrote a book using Haskell (you can read it free online: https://leanpub.com/haskell-cookbook )

That said there are a lot of tasks that I use Ruby for (text wrangling), Python (machine learning), and Java (huge number of useful libraries).

I use Haskell for NLP, some web apps, and coding algorithms that don't require libraries that aren't available for Haskell. If Haskell had a huge set of 3rd party libraries like Java, then I would probably use it for most of my development.

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Re:Why hasn't Haskell taken over the world? And the curious ... by innocentoldguy on Saturday January 21, 2017 @02:50PM (#13451723)

Haskell Tutorial and Cookbook is one of the two books I've been using to learn Haskell (the other one being Haskell Programming, by Christopher Allen and Julie Moronuki). Thanks for the excellent book!

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Re:Why hasn't Haskell taken over the world? And the curious ... by bubblesocks on Sunday January 22, 2017 @12:38PM (#13456128)

I can vouch for Haskell Programming, but I haven't read the other book. Thanks for the recommendation.

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Re:Why hasn't Haskell taken over the world? And the curious ... by codygman on Saturday January 21, 2017 @06:04PM (#13452594)

Those two books sound like an excellent strategy.

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Re:Why hasn't Haskell taken over the world? And the curious ... by zigzigzag on Sunday January 22, 2017 @11:46AM (#13455896)

I'll be interested to see if Eta takes off more than Frege. It seems like a good way to get haskell+java libraries together.

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