How easy is it to hire Haskell programmers

[badri]

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-July/079619.html

[ionfish]

The whole thread is worth reading.

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-July/thre...

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[gtani → ionfish]

about as easy as hiring scala programmers, i figure...

Hey, haskell's up to #14 in github league table:

http://github.com/languages/Haskell

[mononcqc]

> (Well, in case of these two, better to check that person has some grasp of static typing :))

http://www.erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/typespec.html

http://web.mit.edu/drscheme_v42/.share.sun4x_510/plt/doc/ts-...

Shouldn't be that hard. It's not because the language is dynamic that it doesn't support static types ;)

[chc → mononcqc]

The fact that there are extensions to those languages to add static typing still doesn't establish much of a correlation between "knows this language" and "groks static typing." There are lots of very proficient Schemers who have never used Typed Racket.

[mononcqc → chc]

Yes, my comment wasn't meant to be totally serious. If static typing extensions were really used by everyone using Racket and/or Erlang, I wouldn't even have had to link to the extensions to begin with :)

[kunjaan → mononcqc]

Update: It's Typed Racket which is available here - http://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-reference/index.html

[iuygtfnh]

Should be an easy function - if you don't want them to have side-effects

[artsrc]

How easy is it to hire good programmers?

It is easier to hire good Haskell programmers because people who choose Haskell are interested in what they are doing.