Why is Haskell used so little in the industry?
Bugspy asked an interesting question on Stack Overflow recently: It is a wonderful, very fast, mature and complete language. It exists for a very long time and has a big set of libraries. Yet, it appears not to be widely used. Why ? I suspect it is because it is pretty rough and unforgiving for beginners, and maybe because its lazy execution makes it even harder Jeff Atwood, cofounder of Stack Overflow, has since closed the question for being subjective and argumentative. Sadly, Marc Gravell chose to edit my answer and delete half of my comments so the discussion no longer makes sense. However, my response will be of interest to anyone considering gambling their own money on Haskell so I shall repeat it here. The first point of interest is Norman Ramsey's meta-answer which was written from his point of view as an academic. Norman explains why he believes that major institutes have already made "great use" of Haskell: "Don't tell that to Credit Suisse or Standa...