Is Haskell a suitable language for programming robots? Would a robot with a strictly functional brain be safer? I have run a fairly hairy 2K line Haskell app on a target as small as an Atom based netbook. It ran reasonably.
I suppose, for a linux target, that a Haskell executable is pretty much like any other executable.
What is the benefit to taking a purely functional approach to robotics?
For some pioneers (think Greenblatt, Stallman, etc) Lisp was a "systems programming" language. Is Haskell a reasonable successor?
These are questions I am pondering. I am doing some Haskell (here an there -- prototyping stuff at work, etc), but I keep wondering what the killer application would be *for me*.
