[chubot]

Yeah, so this sort of proves my point :)

I don't begrudge anyone if they want to use Haskell or OCaml for everything.

But personally I am interested in using ML-like languages for language engineering and not general purpose programming (maybe Rust could change that, but I'm not convinced). I program in 5+ different languages regularly so I've dealt with all the friction involved, mainly by explicitly designing systems as heterogeneous collections of Unix processes.

[mightybyte]

Hmmm, I'm not sure what you're saying. What point does it prove? I've been using Haskell for general purpose programming for five years now and I've found it to be exceptionally well-suited.