On 7/18/07, Jon Harrop
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