That fits with our experience (gamr7).
We got 20 applicants, all of them very good.
L.
Paul Johnson wrote:
Tom Hawkins wrote:
Such a database would help me counter by boss's
argument that "it's impossible to find and hire Haskell programmers."
There was a thread last week where someone asked who would be
interested in a hypothetical Haskell job. He got about 20 positive
responses. This agrees with the experience of Microsoft Research in
2006 when they advertised for a third person to help with GHC
development. They also had about 20 applicants.
So next time I hear the "you can't get the programmers" line I'm going
to respond with something like this:
"If you post an advert for a Haskell developer you will get 20
applicants. All of those people will be the kind of developer who
learns new programming languages to improve their own abilities and
stretch themselves, because nobody yet learns Haskell just to get a
job.
"If you post an advert for a Java developer you will get 200
applicants. Most of them will be the kind of developer who learned
Java because there are lots of Java jobs out there, and as long as
they know enough to hold down a job then they see no reason to learn
anything."
Paul.
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