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Re:Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (2009) by codygman on Monday August 07, 2017 @06:56PM (#14951975)
> Haskell is used by, to a first approximation, no one. Which was my point.

Unless you have a very loose definition of"no one" that simply is not true.

Just off the top of my head:

Haxl at Facebook Bond at Microsoft Supply chain management at Target

Also see:

https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry

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Re:Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (2009) by Turing_Machine on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:45AM (#14954779)
>Unless you have a very loose definition of"no one" that simply is not true.

What part of "to a first approximation" was unclear?

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Haskell is in 47th place, which is consistent with where it ranks in every other popularity list I've ever seen.

I'm standing behind "to a first approximation, nobody".

Note that I'm not saying that Haskell is a bad language, or that Haskell programmers are bad people or anything like it.

I'm saying that the vast majority of programmers do not use Haskell. An anecdote about a particular group that uses Haskell (or even several groups) does nothing to refute that fact.

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