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Re:What are the most polarizing programming languages? by gaius on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @04:36PM (#10509962)
No it's good, you don't want to be bait-and-switched. So many job ads now say "Haskell/OCaml/Erlang..." But they're actually Java shops. Better to put the warning up front.
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Re:What are the most polarizing programming languages? by gruez on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @07:30PM (#10510798)
> So many job ads now say "Haskell/OCaml/Erlang..." But they're actually Java shops.

Why would they do that?

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Re:What are the most polarizing programming languages? by btilly on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @09:12PM (#10511181)
They are hiring for the new system they are trying to develop, and supporting the legacy code they can't get rid of. They are always overoptimistic on how much time will be spent on new vs old.
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Re:What are the most polarizing programming languages? by gaius on Thursday November 05, 2015 @01:30AM (#10511949)
That's a charitable idea but the real reason is bait-and-switch, a "creative" solution to being unable to recruit.
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