Haskell is a high-level, compiled, strongly typed, pure, lazy, functional language that has been in development since 1990. It supports lightweight threads, non-blocking IO, software transactional memory, metaprogramming and many libraries. Large companies have begun using Haskell for tasks such as web applications, datacenter management, and industrial controllers.

1. But, if you want.
I can tell a little bit more about Haskell
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2. Haskell
That is a
- High level
- Compiled (sofisticated optimizing compiler)
- Native
- Strong statically typed
- Pure
- Lazy
- Functional
language with ...
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3. Haskell
- History since 1990
- SMP support (no GIL)
- Lightweight threads (run as many threads per box as you want. 1000,
10000, ...)
- Non-blocking IO and libraries (epoll, kqueue)
- STM (Software Transactional Memory)
- AST-level Metaprogramming
- Lots of libraries
- REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop)
that ...
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4. Haskell
allows you, for an instance
- Write web-servers with 50 KRPS utilizing multiple CPU cores
- Write some bit-manipating code that is only for 25% slower than C
- Cheap refactoring (because of strong typing)
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5. Haskell
In last years, it’s not an academic toy anymore. Some investment banks,
ISPs and other large companies use it.
We successfully used it before for
- Misc. Automation
- Datacenter management
- Industrial controller (client-server, RS485, GPIO, Google Protobuffers,
etc)
- High performance web applications
- Developing compilers and DSL
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6. Haskell
That’s finally all.
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7. Haskell
That’s finally all. No, Really.
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