The whole thread is worth reading.

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

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

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

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

http://github.com/languages/Haskell

> (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 ;)

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.

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 :)

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

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

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.