2009/10/25 Magnus Therning <mag...@therning.org>: > On 24/10/09 23:08, Iain Barnett wrote: > > If you're in business, you're trying to keep your costs > > lower than your income. That means that a language with a > > stable code base, good/many libraries, and a large pool of > > developers is a good choice. > > I'm not sure it necessarily means that. [...] Having a smaller > pool of developers to choose from is not necessarily bad, as > long as it is offset by a higher ratio of first-rate > developers.
I think you also have to consider how committed you are to retaining developers. Plenty of people aren't; for them Java and PHP are feasible where Haskell (and RoR) aren't. > Also, as I'm sure you've found out re libraries, more isn't > necessarily better. Indeed -- if libraries were sufficient, CPAN would have been enough to keep Python and Ruby from ever growing into the force they now are. -- Jason Dusek _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
