How to get functional software engineering experience?

[John Hughes]

>
> However, it appears that the only place (short of Ericsson) I can actually
> work on a complex functional system is in academia. Unfortunately, this is
> not an option, as I have no Ph.D., and going back to school is probably not
> realistic.

There are other companies using Erlang, if not on as large a scale. The
Erlang User Conference (proceedings online at erlang.org) is a good
starting point to find out which. Some of the best stories, though, are
from very small Erlang groups in companies mainly using something else...

I would guess the biggest Haskell company is Galois Connections Inc
(galois.com), although I know there are others. Funny there's no "Haskell
in Industry" section on haskell.org -- it might be small, but it wouldn't
be empty, if people using Haskell were willing to stand up and be counted.

John Hughes