[Haskell-cafe] Re: Are you a Haskell expert? [How easy is it to hire Haskell programmers]

2010-07-03 Thread Andy Stewart
Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com writes: Don Stewart wrote: So I guess that means that I don't count as a knowledgable Haskell programmer. :-( RWH is free and online, and covers many useful things. There's no excuse :-) I was about to say yeah, but RWH isn't

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Are you a Haskell expert? [How easy is it to hire Haskell programmers]

2010-07-03 Thread Andy Stewart
Brandon S Allbery KF8NH allb...@ece.cmu.edu writes: On 7/3/10 05:57 , Andrew Coppin wrote: Agreed. So let me rephrase: Why should _every_ Haskell library involve C? ;-) Who says they do, or should? AFAIK it's only done for the reasons I mentioned (or, sometimes, for library compatibility; a