[macintux]

> If they did, Haskell programmers would be so much higher productivity than C programmers that the latter would be simply competed out of the market.

That implies a much smarter market than I believe exists.

I think it’s possible (not arguing it’s true) that Haskell is dramatically better yet entrenched interests (e.g., managers afraid of not being able to find programmers, and programmers afraid of being obsoleted) block the logical conclusion.

[seanmcdirmid]

I’m pretty sure most of the Haskell crowd doesn’t believe this. There are benefits to learning, thinking in, and using Haskell, but raw easily measured productivity increases isn’t one of them (nor is it for almost any other programming language).