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Re:Four months with Haskell by quantumhobbit on Monday June 13, 2016 @01:42PM (#11895687)
Stop hiring "Java developers" or "Erlang developers" or "Blub3.0 developers". Just hire developers who are smart enough to learn whatever language you are using.

Maybe you hire a "developer with experience in functional languages such as Haskell" if you are in a rush. But if you find yourself in a place where you need to hire very specific skills with no time to train, then you have already lost.

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Re:Four months with Haskell by jimbokun on Monday June 13, 2016 @04:50PM (#11897503)
"Just hire developers who are smart enough to learn whatever language you are using."

Knowing a less-commonly-used language like Haskell could be a fairly good indicator for this quality.

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Re:Four months with Haskell by quantumhobbit on Monday June 13, 2016 @07:05PM (#11898488)
Very true. I think this is the source of pg's python paradox from back when python was much less popular than it is today.
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Re:Four months with Haskell by jwatte on Monday June 13, 2016 @02:40PM (#11896195)
By the way, I have some openings for Blub3.0 developers, if you're interested! Two years experience minimum required.
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Re:Four months with Haskell by douche on Monday June 13, 2016 @03:45PM (#11896827)
It's a language you just created last Tuesday, isn't it?
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