Re: [Haskell-cafe] How many "Haskell Engineer I/II/III"s are there?

2010/02/10 Tom Tobin :

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Jason Dusek wrote:

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 I wonder how many people actually write Haskell, principally or exclusively, at work?

While I don't suspect the number is large at the moment, the same thing could have been said several years ago of the language I use at my current job and used at my last job: Python.  I get the same "industrial incubation period vibe" (for lack of a better term) from Haskell that I once got from Python -- although perhaps I'm biased in that I simply *like* these languages, too.  :p

I completely agree. I'm just trying to figure out where on the growth curve we are :) I am also interested in what industries tend to aggregate Haskell programmers. Within the Bay Area webosphere, Haskell is not much liked though Scala is gaining some traction. I think this has a lot to do with the fact that web programming is very much a "let's go shopping" kind of discipline -- no point in troubling oneself over correctness when the users haven't weighed in on the worth of your site. Of course this attitude leads to a long maintenance phase of Crazy Stuff®, like writing a PHP compiler; but by then you have piles of money to throw at the problem! Such is the theory, anyways. -- Jason Dusek