Re:Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Progra...
by jmillikin on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @07:10PM
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That's a server, not a browser ;)
I was using FORTRAN, Erlang, and Python as examples of languages which are heavily used in industry, but have neither the crushing popularity of Java/C# or the pop-culture appreciation of Ruby or Javascript. It doesn't really matter how much Haskell or Erlang are used, or how many billions of dollars pass through their runtimes every day; for whatever reason, the Internet has decided they are not popular.
I was using FORTRAN, Erlang, and Python as examples of languages which are heavily used in industry, but have neither the crushing popularity of Java/C# or the pop-culture appreciation of Ruby or Javascript. It doesn't really matter how much Haskell or Erlang are used, or how many billions of dollars pass through their runtimes every day; for whatever reason, the Internet has decided they are not popular.