On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:01:53PM -0700, David Leimbach wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Darrin Chandler > <dwchand...@stilyagin.com>wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 01:38:23PM -0500, aditya siram wrote: > > > > Judging by the other thread, "getting hired" might be a valid answer > > here... > > > > > > > No argument there - I'm even afraid to stick it on my resume. At least > > > Clojure can be snuck into the JVM without people noticing - Haskell, > > > unfortunately, is not that shy. > > > > "I am sad that I can't use cool languages in the boring, mainstream > > corporate jobs that are easy to find." > > > > If you want to use cool languages, you may have to get a cool job. I > > know: it's easy to say and harder to accomplish. > > > I would never look at a resume when reviewing people to hire, see an exotic > programming language, and draw negative conclusions about that candidate. > In fact, I've found that learning to solve problems from different solution > spaces in general is a worthwhile mental exercise, and helps one to come up > with possibly better solutions in the mainstream languages. > > Sometimes breadth of experience is a good thing.
I agree. On the (employee) flip side, I'd rather go work for someone who has views like you mention, regardless of language in use. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
