<div dir="ltr">I wouldn't put much stock in tiobe. They change their algorithm regularly and they apparently did something drastic this month.<br><br>As for haskell, I have never seen as many job offers for haskell developers as I have seen in the last few months. I do think scala is more popular than haskell in industry, but not by as much as tiobe seems to think at this particular moment.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Gregory Guthrie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:guthrie@mum.edu" target="_blank">guthrie@mum.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I find that Haskell has a very different learning curve from other languages that I use/know/have-tried, in that the basic language itself is very simple and easy to learn and appreciate. However once one starts using a lot of monads and applicatives and other libraries, it can begin to look more like APL.<br>
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>>> parser >>= >>> ( \s -> return ( pl' { P.payloadData = setField pld (Just s) } } ) )<br>
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Certainly one can learn to parse and read this, but with all of the new operators and thus syntax not familiar to standard IP language users.<br>
(Not a complaint, just an observation from teaching this to students new to FP.)<br>
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And in my experience the cabal problems are the "fatal-flaw"; it is not infrequent that I have had to delete all libraries and start over, and I have only very simple usage. I would not want to have a business project that depended on this, as often I have not found a good solution where I could install all the packages I wanted. (Perhaps I just need to learn more about sandboxing techniques.)<br>
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I am not a fan of the Scala syntax, but it does seem to be an easier transition because it look-and-feel's more like the typical IPs.<br>
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