Hi all, Time to delurk. I'm a Lisper and mathematician who has been reading this group for about a year, but I haven't posted until now.
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Jason Dusek <jason.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > What can we say to that? I'm well practiced in handling those > who reject types outright (Python programmers), those who > reject what is too different (C programmers), those who can > not live without objects (Java programmers), those who insist > we must move everything to message passing (Erlang > programmers). It's not too often that I meet an embittered > LISP programmer -- one who's well acquainted with a bold and > well-supported community of functional programmers whose > shooting star soon descended to dig a smoking hole in the > ground. I think you rarely meet embittered Lisp programmers simply because we Lispers are rarely embittered, but are still Lisping happily, and don't feel that the picture of a "shooting start descending to dig a smoking hole in the ground" is an accurate representation of reality. :-) > Who's to say Haskell (and the more typeful languages in > general) do not find themselves in the same situation in just > a few years' time? Is avoiding success at all costs really > enough? That's funny, because from my perspective the situation looks diametrically opposite. Haskell is an awesome language, and I would love to use it, but the community seems so small, and I've never seen a Haskell job. Lisp, on the other hand, has a thriving community, several high-quality implementations for all major platforms, and pays my bills. My impression has always been that Haskell, unlike Lisp, is little more than a marginal research language which is only used in academia and by a few enthusiastic hobbyists. Am I just hanging around with the wrong people? I hope I am: I would love to have a Haskell job some day. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe