30 Nov
2004
30 Nov
'04
11:04 a.m.
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:57:27PM +0100, Shae Matijs Erisson wrote:
The #haskell irc channel on irc.freenode.net is composed of many different flavors of programmer, from self-educated 16 year olds on up to post doctoral students studying functional programming. I'm a self-educated, self-employed programmer. I use Python in most of my paying work but would very much prefer to use Haskell. It seems obvious to me (but not to most of my clients :-) that the various powerful and expressive patterns in Haskell allow programmers to deliver more business value in less time than almost any other programming language.
I've been sitting around #haskell on EfNet for something like 5 years and wondering why no one ever came by. -- wli