Re: [Haskell-cafe] Investing in languages (Was: What is your favourite Haskell "aha" moment?)

Am 12.07.2018 um 19:50 schrieb J. Garrett Morris:

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 1:24 AM Joachim Durchholz wrote:

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Maybe that's why Java replaced Haskell in some universities curricula

The considerations are marketable skills.

That's certainly a consideration. I doubt it weighs particularly heavy on the departments at Austin, Berkeley, or MIT however. Their graduates will be plenty marketable regardless of the languages they see most as undergraduates.

Yes, but 90% of universities are not elite, and since these educate 90% of the students, we still end with a prevalence of marketable programming language skills. Not that I'm criticizing this. Not too strongly anyway; there are positive and negative aspects to this. (Thanks for the rest, leaving it out because I have nothing of value to add, not because I disagree.)