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Comment by codygman

12 years ago

I believe Haskell could be up to the job, but I heard that there were some difficulties in guarding against timing attacks. However those could have just been noise. I know that a functional (I believe and haha) operating system was made in Haskell.

Aren't Operating Systems lower level than OpenSSL?

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nknighthb  12 years ago

I look forward to reading the hilarious threads that will be spawned when you take to linux-kernel, freebsd-hackers, openbsd-misc, etc. and inform them they should be developing their kernels in Haskell.

Functional programming's unpopularity is not rooted in any real or imagined inability to write operating systems.

  • codygman  12 years ago

    Well you also have to account for the fact that they've spent a lot of time working with their tools and are quite invested in them.

    Perhaps they would balk at the idea of writing a kernel in Haskell, but it has been done before.