[cover_drive]

Thanks for your support. Like I mentioned, I will circle back to Haskell as the business develops. If I was the only programmer in my startup, I would likely go with Haskell for important components of our software. But I have concerns about hiring a large team that would thrive in Haskell. One never knows - I'm keeping an open mind :)

[tikhonj]

Hmm, I'm not convinced that hiring a team of good developers for Scala is all that much harder than hiring good Haskell programmers. Haskell has a disproportionate number of very capable people interested in it, and from what I've heard acts as both a way to attract top developers and as something of a filter (at least in encouraging applicants to be more self-selected).

I think these effects cancel out Haskell's relative lack of popularity unless you expect to be hiring at the enterprise Java level--something like literally thousands of developers.

Anyhow, keeping an open mind is the most important thing, and you clearly have no problems there. I just wish others would follow suit in that regard.

[jerf]

"The core of ZLemma.com is a mathematical framework involving highly structured data representations and numerical algorithms."

You might also consider a Haskell core, surrounded by a Python website. (Or any other website language/framework you like.) It strikes me as likely you have some sort of relatively small interface you can define between those two things, and then you can use the strengths of everything.

[cover_drive]

I am with you on this. More on this in Part 2 of the post.