<div dir="ltr"><div><div></div><div class="markdown-here-wrapper" style><p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">To convince managers I believe you should emphasize at the language’s practical potential. </p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">Nowadays there’s nothing as important as software scalability, and you have a beautiful story to tell: the scalable and composable concurrency using the Software Transactional Memory model, the semi-implicit and explicit parallelism, the distributed systems programming (e.g., clusters) using Cloud Haskell. There also are <a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/">thousands of open-source libraries</a> in the every growing central repo. The community <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/haskell">is eager to help</a>.</p>

<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">There are lots of video presentations covering the topics I mention. I recommend <a href="https://skillsmatter.com/legacy_profile/simon-peyton-jones#skillscasts">walking thru the ones by Simon Peyton Jones</a> for a start.</p>

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