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 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.
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