Sorry for the long gap between postings, folks. It's been busy. I just came across this interview with David Roundy, the creator of darcs, a revision control system written in Haskell. I've written about darcs before, and I definitely think it's work a look. One of my favorite quotes from the interview:

One danger that is often mentioned is that of a lack of contributors due to the rarity of Haskell programmers. I've been surprised by the number and quality of contributors darcs has had. There seem to be quite a few people out there just looking for somewhere to use Haskell! :) And in fact, there have also been developers who learned Haskell expressly for the purpose of contributing to darcs. It's such a pleasant language to work with that I think it's more of a draw to developers than a put-off.

I hope the success of darcs encourages more people to try out Haskell and other functional languages.