2010/02/10 Tom Tobin <korp...@korpios.com>: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Jason Dusek <jason.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I wonder how many people actually write Haskell, > > principally or exclusively, at work? > > While I don't suspect the number is large at the moment, the > same thing could have been said several years ago of the > language I use at my current job and used at my last job: > Python. I get the same "industrial incubation period vibe" > (for lack of a better term) from Haskell that I once got from > Python -- although perhaps I'm biased in that I simply *like* > these languages, too. :p
I completely agree. I'm just trying to figure out where on the growth curve we are :) I am also interested in what industries tend to aggregate Haskell programmers. Within the Bay Area webosphere, Haskell is not much liked though Scala is gaining some traction. I think this has a lot to do with the fact that web programming is very much a "let's go shopping" kind of discipline -- no point in troubling oneself over correctness when the users haven't weighed in on the worth of your site. Of course this attitude leads to a long maintenance phase of Crazy Stuff®, like writing a PHP compiler; but by then you have piles of money to throw at the problem! Such is the theory, anyways. -- Jason Dusek _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe