Real World Haskell

Joel Reymont is quite well known for using languages like Erlang and Common Lisp for building real world production applications to gain competitive advantage. On his weblog he's been quite open about how he has used these languages for things like his Open Poker server, and 'uptick' trading system. Now it seems he's using Haskell for some of his work. Hopefully he'll start blogging about what he finds the strengths of Haskell to be. His post is very positive about the language, although there seem to be some rough spots:

Overall, the experience with Haskell has been exhilarating and I'm already preparing to use it on my next projects like detecting collusion in poker as well as rake optimization (Dazzle paper very helpful here!). Still, I think that GHC can be a bit rough around the edges and I would think twice about writing high-performance network apps with it.

Categories: haskell