G'day all. On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:47:13PM -0500, Jeffrey Palmer wrote:
> Are there any options for people like me, or does my functional experience > remain limited to the hobby* work I can squeeze in at night and on weekends? > > Thoughts? The first thing you have to understand is that there isn't a lot of functional (or even declarative) software engineering experience out there. Going into academia wouldn't help even if you were qualified. With all due respect to the fine people who have produced some wonderful pieces of software, they tend to concentrate on research rather than engineering, as they should. On the other hand, it's an exciting time to do engineering in declarative languages, because we can invent the design patterns and discover what the good habits are as we go along. Yay for the bleeding edge. Slight digression: Would it be good to have a forum to discuss the specific issues which arise when doing software engineering in Haskell, or declarative languages in general? Just a thought... All I can suggest that you do is if you have some leeway in how you implement something, do it in Haskell. Especially if it's a tool to be used internally. > * I'm building a realistic image synthesis package in Haskell, if anyone's > interested. ;) You've got me curious now. I was using Haskell last year while working in the visual effects industry. We might discuss this off-list... Cheers, Andrew Bromage _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
