[Haskell-cafe] Maintaining the community

[Martin Coxall]

On 7/18/07, Jon Harrop <jon at ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 July 2007 23:26:08 Hugh Perkins wrote:
> > Am I the only person who finds it interesting/worrying that there are few
> > to no people in the group who are ex-C# programmers.  I mean, you could
> > argue that C# programmers are simply too stupid to do Haskell, but ... you
> > know, there is another explanation ;-)
>
> To understand this, I think you must look at the number of technical users for
> each language. There are a huge number of technical C++ and Java programmers
> but a tiny number of technical C# programmers in comparison. The few
> technical C# programmers are migrating to F# because it is next door and F#
> programmers are better looking.

Most C# programmers are (a) GUI programmers and (b) former VB
programmers. This means they are *guaranteed* to be less attractive
that the average C++ developer. I have proof. But it's too big to be
contained in this margin.

Martin