Re: [Haskell-cafe] Maintaining the community

On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 00:26 +0200, Hugh Perkins wrote:

On 7/17/07, Thomas Conway wrote: And this is where I think Haskell has it all over C++, Java, and the rest. Haskell is easy to learn at a simple level, and hard to learn at the expert level, but once learned is very powerful and has excellent payoffs in terms of productivity. With C++ or Java, the expertise is somewhat easier to acquire, but you never get the payoff. And before you all flame, yes, I do know C++ at an expert level, and that is exactly why, after 7 years of writing server software in C++, I now want to do it in Haskell.

You know, it just occurred to me: I get the feeling that many Haskell programmers are ex-C++ programmers, which makes a certain amount of sense because C++ is insanely hard to debug and maintain, because of stack/heap corruption, and lack of a GC.

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 ;-)

Don't you think it's a little early for people to be abandoning C# en masse? For example, there are plenty of ex/current Java programmers.