[Haskell-cafe] The ultimate insult?

[Micah Cowan]

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Andrew Coppin wrote:
> "Delphi is usable. If you're a single hobbiest programmer, use whatever
> gets the job done. But as far as a career goes, I'd say even Haskell has
> better prospects than Delphi."
> 
> So "even Haskell" is better? Ouch!

Oh come on... has anyone here actually pursued learning Haskell because
they thought it would help them rake in the jobs? :)

...I did once have a manager who habitually listed Lisp as a requirement
for software positions, even though it wasn't actually going to be used
(it was all C, C++ and Perl). He just wanted prospective employees to
have had experience understanding a different paradigm (functional-ish
programming). I wonder whether he's updated that to "Lisp, Scheme or
Haskell"? XSLT would do as well, I suppose...

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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