Mark Carroll
How easy is it to hire reasonable Haskell programmers? Of course, this may mean, hiring people with the aptitude and interest to quickly learn Haskell. Has anyone any experience of this that they can share?
Depends where you are, I guess. In Sydney, it would be easy. We are teaching Haskell to about 1500 first-year students every year. Many of them are not CS majors and so probably wouldn't fit your bill, but a large number of our School's graduates have enough experience in imperative, OO, and functional programming that they can work in any of these areas. I know that there are a number of schools in Germany and the UK who teach functional programming on a large scale, too. Not so sure about the rest of the planet. At least MIT and Rice should produce some Scheme programmers ;-) You might like to enquire at some universities close to you where you are located whether any of their graduates may be useful to you. Cheers, Manuel