[Haskell-cafe] Facebook puzzles allow for GHC solutions

2009-05-27 Thread David Leimbach
Interesting: http://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php So they use Haskell at Facebook? Dave ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Facebook puzzles allow for GHC solutions

2009-05-27 Thread Mattias Bengtsson
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 08:20 -0700, David Leimbach wrote: Interesting: http://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php So they use Haskell at Facebook? They could very well be having ghc installed on their puzzle test server without using it elsewhere. They got my attention though. Perhaps

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Facebook puzzles allow for GHC solutions

2009-05-27 Thread David Leimbach
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Mattias Bengtsson moonl...@dtek.chalmers.se wrote: On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 08:20 -0700, David Leimbach wrote: Interesting: http://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php So they use Haskell at Facebook? They could very well be having ghc installed on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Facebook puzzles allow for GHC solutions

2009-05-27 Thread Rick R
They are the creators of Thrift which they created for internal use and then published/open-sourced.. It is a multi-language RPC API/Service. When it went public, one of the languages interfaces they provided was Haskell. So yes. They use Haskell somewhere inside Facebook. On Wed, May 27, 2009

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Facebook puzzles allow for GHC solutions

2009-05-27 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello David, Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 7:20:33 PM, you wrote: Interesting: http://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php So they use Haskell at Facebook? actually, of 5 compiled languages there, 3 are FP, and only 2 remaining are the most popular languages on planet - C++ and Java so this

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Facebook puzzles allow for GHC solutions

2009-05-27 Thread Gaius Hammond
On 27 May 2009, at 19:45, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: actually, of 5 compiled languages there, 3 are FP, and only 2 remaining are the most popular languages on planet - C++ and Java so this list shows their huge respect to FP It is well known that Facebook are heavy Erlang users.