>I see equally smart people enraptured with Haskell. And, maybe it's just over my head, but so far no practical advance is apparent.
The advantages appear to be limited to highly complex functional code (i.e. big black boxes of code without side effects). IIRC facebook has a spam filter written using it.
Since most of the industry involves code where the functional aspect isn't all that complex and the side effects are, the practical advances aren't all that relevant for a lot of people.
Except, perhaps, for the impact Haskell is having on other more mainstream languages' design.
The advantages appear to be limited to highly complex functional code (i.e. big black boxes of code without side effects). IIRC facebook has a spam filter written using it.
Since most of the industry involves code where the functional aspect isn't all that complex and the side effects are, the practical advances aren't all that relevant for a lot of people.
Except, perhaps, for the impact Haskell is having on other more mainstream languages' design.