Re: [Haskell-cafe] What happens if you get hit by a bus?

2011-12-17 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Hehee Great. Haskell is a flexible high level language perfect for domain specific languages it isn't?. A well designed solution is, at the top level, simple and understandable even by non experts. The software transforms the complexities of the hardware into something that the user can

[Haskell-cafe] What happens if you get hit by a bus?

2011-12-16 Thread Michael Litchard
I'm learning what it means to be a professional Haskell programmer, and contemplating taking on side jobs. The path of least resistance seems to be web applications, as that is what I do at work. I've been investigating what some web developers have to say about their trade. One article addresses

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What happens if you get hit by a bus?

2011-12-16 Thread Colin Adams
I would think there were plenty of Haskell programmers ready to jump in as replacements. On 16 December 2011 15:37, Michael Litchard mich...@schmong.org wrote: I'm learning what it means to be a professional Haskell programmer, and contemplating taking on side jobs. The path of least

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What happens if you get hit by a bus?

2011-12-16 Thread Michael Litchard
Yes! I could cite the large and growing set of libraries on hackage as evidence. On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Colin Adams colinpaulad...@gmail.com wrote: I would think there were plenty of Haskell programmers ready to jump in as replacements. On 16 December 2011 15:37, Michael Litchard

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What happens if you get hit by a bus?

2011-12-16 Thread Marc Weber
What about just replying with this one link: http://www.haskellers.com/ As thumb of rule it takes half the time to review code compared to writing it (Don't remember where I read it ..). Thus even RoR can be a lock in and delay updates if stuff changes. The only chance is creating a team and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What happens if you get hit by a bus?

2011-12-16 Thread Ketil Malde
Michael Litchard mich...@schmong.org writes: One article addresses the question above. His answer was that he uses RoR which has a large community and he is therefore easily replaceable. My question, for freelancers in general, and web developers in particular is this: How do you address this

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What happens if you get hit by a bus?

2011-12-16 Thread Brian Hurt
I think the truck-factor implications of the programming language as dwarfed by the implications of everything else in the project. Any project of any significant size is going to have a huge amount of project-specific information tucked up inside the programmers head. It doesn't matter if there

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What happens if you get hit by a bus?

2011-12-16 Thread Steve Schafer
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:17:20 -0500, Brian Hurt bh...@spnz.org wrote: I think the truck-factor implications of the programming language as dwarfed by the implications of everything else in the project. Any project of any significant size is going to have a huge amount of project-specific

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What happens if you get hit by a bus?

2011-12-16 Thread Ivan Perez
Just like Michael, I've been learning what it means to be a professional Haskell programmer for a few months. I think the case of Ruby on Rails and Haskell are very, very, very different. Ruby on Rails has been around for many years. There are books, tutorials, examples, websites, etc. Still,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What happens if you get hit by a bus?

2011-12-16 Thread Yves Parès
Tell them that if you were instead on Rails, you'd have a huge chance of being hit by a train, which is likely to deal far more damage than a bus. 2011/12/16 Michael Litchard mich...@schmong.org I'm learning what it means to be a professional Haskell programmer, and contemplating taking on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What happens if you get hit by a bus?

2011-12-16 Thread Bardur Arantsson
Michael Litchard wrote: [--snip--] If getting hit by a bus is a significant factor in the overall outcome of the project then I think those are pretty good odds, aren't they? (I do realize that traffic accidents are a lot more frequent than we like to think, but still...) -- Bárður

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What happens if you get hit by a bus?

2011-12-16 Thread Andrew Coppin
On 16/12/2011 07:05 PM, Bardur Arantsson wrote: Michael Litchard wrote: [--snip--] If getting hit by a bus is a significant factor in the overall outcome of the project then I think those are pretty good odds, aren't they? (I do realize that traffic accidents are a lot more frequent than we

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What happens if you get hit by a bus?

2011-12-16 Thread Brian Hurt
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.comwrote: On 16/12/2011 07:05 PM, Bardur Arantsson wrote: Michael Litchard wrote: [--snip--] If getting hit by a bus is a significant factor in the overall outcome of the project then I think those are pretty good

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What happens if you get hit by a bus?

2011-12-16 Thread Bardur Arantsson
Andrew Coppin wrote: On 16/12/2011 07:05 PM, Bardur Arantsson wrote: Michael Litchard wrote: [--snip--] If getting hit by a bus is a significant factor in the overall outcome of the project then I think those are pretty good odds, aren't they? (I do realize that traffic accidents are a