[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell in Industry

[Henning Thielemann]

about functional programming jobs in investment banking ...

Ketil Malde schrieb:
> Tom Hawkins <tomahawkins at gmail.com> writes:

>> (Yes, I realize that's were the money is [...])
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> I don't think this is bad: having talented people recruited to work
> on functional programming will improve the technology for all of us.

I'm not sure I follow this opinion in general. Analogously I could say:
Supporting military is a good idea, since they invest in new
technologies. That's not my opinion. Maybe the next financial crisis
leads us into the next world war.