&gt; Learning Haskell will pay off much less than learning PHP, if your goal is to find a job.<br><br>Amen.<br><br>&gt; I cannot agree with this for practical reasons.  I&#39;m using Haskell for<br>
&gt; real world commercial applications, and I&#39;m very productive with it.<br>
<br>I wish so much I could say that... Out of curiosity, what are you using Haskell for?<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/6/2 Ertugrul Soeylemez <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:es@ertes.de">es@ertes.de</a>&gt;</span><br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">&quot;Alberto G. Corona &quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:agocorona@gmail.com">agocorona@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>


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&gt; Haskell is an academic asset as well as a fun asset.<br>
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</div>I cannot agree with this for practical reasons.  I&#39;m using Haskell for<br>
real world commercial applications, and I&#39;m very productive with it.<br>
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There is however a variation of this statement, with which I could<br>
agree, namely:  Learning Haskell will pay off much less than learning<br>
PHP, if your goal is to find a job.  It takes a lot longer and there are<br>
a lot less companies in need of Haskell programmers.<br>
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Greets,<br>
Ertugrul<br>
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