Re: Haskell ... ?

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Jeremiah Foster
<jeremiah_at_jeremiahfoster.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 7, 2012, at 14:29, Björn Göransson wrote:
>
>> Hej,
>>
>> Jag kollar nu på att kanske lära mig Haskell, genom online-boken Learn You A Haskell. Lite undringar jag har är:
>>
>> Finns det jobb inom Haskell idag?
>
> If you go to a company in Sweden today, like Ericsson, Volvo, Cybercom, HiQ, etc. and you tell them you program in Haskell they will tell you they don't have any Haskell jobs.
>
> I seriously doubt there is any gainful employment in Haskell outside of research and the occasional startup. This likely strikes people who know Haskell as stupid since Haskell is likely superior in a variety of ways to "imperative" or "object oriented" programming languages. Making money from programming computers is not purely a technical discipline however which means that technical considerations are, for better or worse, not the only criteria for use. If it were, we'd all be using Lisp! :-)
>

I would argue that Haskell is a LISP(dynamic/static typing aside), it
is just a matter
of transforming the AST to use S-expressions:

http://chrisdone.com/posts/2010-11-25-lisk-lisp-haskell.html

I personally find the Haskell syntax easier to follow.

> Regards,
>
> Jeremiah
>
>
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