On Tue, 2007-05-06 at 08:19 -0700, brad clawsie wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 05:53:33AM +0100, PR Stanley wrote: > > Hi > > BAE Systems which specialises in military technology is looking for > > programmers who have experience in C, C++ and Java and UML. > > large corporations with significant software development obligations > are as interested in the market for software developers as software > development technologies and methodologies. regardless of the > viability of the technologies, there are simply more java coders > out there than haskell coders, and it is likely that given the average > salary and project quality that bae can offer, they need to be able to > access the broadest pool of applicants. > > but there are also technical considerations. java has been in > extremely wide use for nearly a decade, as has c++. using these > technologies is a way to reduce risk. sometimes you don't want to > reduce risk, you want to embrace it in the hopes of creating a larger > payoff. one day the right kind of company may very well conclude that > the potential payoff of haskell is worth the risk.
You know, I remember seeing all of this back when the dominant language was C and C++ was muscling in on the scene.... The smug "nobody uses this new technology" thing. The "there's no career to be had in this new-fangled style" thing and so on. All of it. I'm tempted to quote something about history, learning and repetition now, but won't bother because I suspect most of the people in this mailing list know the quote and have learned from history. -- Michael T. Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (GoogleTalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) If there's one thing that computers do well, it's to make the same mistake uncountable times at inhuman speed. (Peter Coffee)
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