[Haskell-cafe] *GROUP HUG*

Michael Litchard michael at schmong.org
Fri Jun 3 01:59:43 CEST 2011


Being able to use Haskell at such an early stage of my programming
career has given me high expectations of what comes next.

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:22 PM, David Leimbach <leimy2k at gmail.com> wrote:
> I got hired at a company because one of the interviewers was impressed that
> I taught myself Haskell.  I basically never use it at work, but I did in my
> old job.
> Dave
>
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Michael Litchard <michael at schmong.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> I disagree. I'm by no means proficient in Haskell. And, I never
>> bothered learning PHP. I will when I need to. PHP programmers are a
>> dime a dozen. It's been my experience that Haskell is a tool one may
>> use to distinguish oneself from the hoi-poloi. This is important when
>> you live in an area where the baker down the street has a CS degree.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Yves Parès <limestrael at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Learning Haskell will pay off much less than learning PHP, if your goal
>> >> is
>> >> to find a job.
>> >
>> > Amen.
>> >
>> >> I cannot agree with this for practical reasons.  I'm using Haskell for
>> >> real world commercial applications, and I'm very productive with it.
>> >
>> > I wish so much I could say that... Out of curiosity, what are you using
>> > Haskell for?
>> >
>> >
>> > 2011/6/2 Ertugrul Soeylemez <es at ertes.de>
>> >>
>> >> "Alberto G. Corona " <agocorona at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Haskell is an academic asset as well as a fun asset.
>> >>
>> >> I cannot agree with this for practical reasons.  I'm using Haskell for
>> >> real world commercial applications, and I'm very productive with it.
>> >>
>> >> There is however a variation of this statement, with which I could
>> >> agree, namely:  Learning Haskell will pay off much less than learning
>> >> PHP, if your goal is to find a job.  It takes a lot longer and there
>> >> are
>> >> a lot less companies in need of Haskell programmers.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Greets,
>> >> Ertugrul
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> nightmare = unsafePerformIO (getWrongWife >>= sex)
>> >> http://ertes.de/
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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