Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com skills list moderation?

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic < ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com> wrote:

On 20 October 2010 21:38, John Lato wrote:

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Cabal, packaging, build and distribution tools

This should be two categories: "Cabal internals" and "Software packaging/distribution tools". Keep Cabal internals, possibly keep the other

What does "Cabal internals" refer to? Actually using Cabal as a library? Developing Cabal itself?

Developing Cabal itself.

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Fault Tolerant Server Software

Mathematics

drop (possibly keep FTSS, maybe change the name)

Why drop mathematics? (I'd prefer it to be split up, but mathematically-oriented programming is a large/important subset of Haskell "skills" IMHO, though I admit I'm biased).

Mathematics is far too broad to be useful. I agree that subsets of math would be informative (e.g. statistical modelling, linear algebra, graph theory, dif. eq., etc.), but how do you break up Mathematics and assign users who listed it as a skill to its constituent parts?

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UNIX Scripting and Tool Authoring

keep as "UNIX Scripting"

What's wrong with "Tool Authoring"? To some, scripting implies quick+dirty temporary applications/scripts as opposed to a well-engineered tool.

Again, "Tool Authoring" is too broad to be useful. What else do software developers do but author tools? Contrast to "UNIX Scripting", which means familiarity with at least a shell and likely one or more of awk, perl, python, regexes, ... I don't make quality judgements just from the term "scripting", and I'd certainly rather use a well-engineered script over a quick+dirty tool. John