You're straw-manning. I didn't say that C was the best language for everything, nor did I even say it was better than Haskell.<p>I was responding specifically to <i>your</i> claim that Haskell was better than C for the tasks that C is good at.  And I asked for one example of a non-trivial core library (again, not a framework: something like crypto, graphics, numerics, yada yada -- things that are hard, not toys) that would prove that.  And there are none.<p>Obviously I think that says something about the wonderful advantages you think Haskell has.