27 Mar
2006
27 Mar
'06
9:03 a.m.
- Concerns about support and maintenance. Those bright developers may not be around in the long term.
This seems to be a hen & egg problem. Students do not study functional programming deeply because it seems irrelevant to finding a job. Decision makers, on the other hand, either have never heard of FP or are aware that there are not enough people familiar with it and so there are natural concerns about maintenance.
On the other hand, a project is much more likely to succeed if bright developpers are involved. Using haskell is a very good way to attract bright developpers. Hence, a project is much more likely to succeeds if it uses haskell. This is exemplified by the Pugs project. Cheers, JP.