[ajross]

You're straw-manning. I didn't say that C was the best language for everything, nor did I even say it was better than Haskell.

I was responding specifically to your claim that Haskell was better than C for the tasks that C is good at. And I asked for one example of a non-trivial core library (again, not a framework: something like crypto, graphics, numerics, yada yada -- things that are hard, not toys) that would prove that. And there are none.

Obviously I think that says something about the wonderful advantages you think Haskell has.

[jrockway]

It has a great FFI layer, so you can just call all that code that already exists and get on with building something new.

That's what it says.