correction, happstutorial is now tutorial.happstack.com.
2009/10/2 Thomas Hartman <tphya...@gmail.com>: > Hey, first of all, in terms of a platform for promoting haskell > commercially, happstutorial.com actually implements a job board. > > Yeah, it's primitive and not feature complete, but on hackage, open > source, and ready for anyone who would like to work on it. (Currently > maintained by creighton hogg.) > > This was my baby in 2008, when I was looking to foster happs for web > development, as a sort of "smarter" ruby on rails, which I am using in > the field in patch-tag.com. > > 2, the haskell-startup google group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/haskell-startup > > It's private, to encourage slightly more courageous business talk away > from the panoptic gaze of google, but I approve pretty much anyone who > doesn't want in and isn't a bot. > > Yes. Let's create a world with more jobs for haskell developers, and > better software for everyone :) > > thomas. > > > 2009/10/1 Curt Sampson <c...@starling-software.com>: >> On 2009-09-29 13:18 +0200 (Tue), Alberto G. Corona wrote: >> >>> What is the vehicle that haskell can use to enter the mainstream?. >> >> Actually, I have one more thought on that: wait. >> >> I'd had the impression that Haskell was becoming fairly well known (if >> not yet heavily used, in comparison to languages like Java), but I just >> ran across some hard evidence for this. >> >> In the 32 languages ranked on http://www.langpop.com/ , Haskell >> consistently comes down near the bottom in the various rankings of >> use. (But hey, we're not so weird we're not in there!) But if you look >> down near the bottom, at the chart labeled "Normalized Discussion Site >> Results," you'll notice that Haskell comes out sixth. Even trying to be >> more fair to the mainstream, and changing the weighting to drop Lambda >> the Ultimate completely (after all, they're just a bunch of academic >> wankers, right?) and bring IRC down to a contribution of 0.5 instead of >> 1 (apparently those academic wankers have lots of time to chat online), >> Haskell still comes out tenth, with a score over a third that of the >> leader, Java, and close to half that of PHP and C (2nd and 3rd place, >> respectively). >> >> We've also got at least one undeniably good, production-quality compiler >> (which is more than PHP or Ruby can say), and have sold many tens of >> thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands, of books. At this point, >> I don't think many people (John A. De Goes excepted) are looking at >> people writing major applications in Haskell as if they're aliens living >> on another planet. >> >> Haskell is in the mainstream already as far as being taken seriously; >> most of the complaints I'm seeing seem to be grasping at the same kinds >> of straws that the anti-Java guys were back in the late '90s. ("It's >> hopeless if it uses garbage collection.") >> >> We've even got our own over-hyped, under-utilized supposed benefit >> ("it's good for multicore"). >> >> The main whinging seems to be about libraries, of which we have "only" >> 1585 on hackage. >> >> Compare with RubyForge, which has 2059 projects in "beta" or better >> status, or 2961 if we include "alpha" as well. The Ruby Application >> Archive has 1768 projects; I have no idea how much overlap there is, or >> how many of these are real. >> >> I think we just need to sit tight for a couple of years. >> >> cjs >> -- >> Curt Sampson <c...@starling-software.com> +81 90 7737 2974 >> Functional programming in all senses of the word: >> http://www.starling-software.com >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe