A lot of what HN perceives as good I perceive as a problem that I will be left to solve.
I'm old, I'm over 50, got kids, spend a fair amount of my pile of ability each week trying to coach those kids in hockey.
Still working on the company, still trying to make money, still trying to keep it going. Every time someone shows up with something like Haskell I either beat it out of them or I fire them.
I'm sorry but I don't have the energy to deal with your new cool language. I've got a company to keep going, a life to live, I just want to take care of our customers and do it in a way that the next guy can understand and support.
Haskell might be God's gift to programming, I don't care. My job has nothing to do with making people like you happy. I've got customers I need to take care of, Haskell doesn't help. I've got employees I need to take care of, Haskell doesn't help (we are weird in that we've been around for 15 years and most of my guys are still here, we're all getting old and when you get old all that clever shit starts to look like stuff you can't support).
We recently added some pretty complex stuff to BitKeeper, basically a file system and a VM system. For a frigging source management system. In user space. Life is hard enough in C, you want to toss Haskell into that mix? Really? Come interview with us and you'll run screaming from Haskell and everything like it.