i’ve just edited another one of my children’s videos, a new skill for me. it started off pretty innocently, with hooded cloaks, hand axes and tomato sauce splattered in the bath, but now they’re getting carried away. this one was five days’ intensive shooting and 800 takes in all. i need a holiday.
software is risky for many reasons. technologies must be chosen to minimize overall risk, and a minority programming language like haskell would need to be pretty good to offset the possibility of getting stuck with an unsupportable codebase. so why choose haskell?