I'm a musician and I can tell you from experience that I sound a lot better on a Steinway concert grand than on a cheap Casio keyboard. So, more money? I guess the keyboard is cheaper, but when the musician is happy the music is better.
Re:Ask HN: Career opportunities with Haskell?
by keefe on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @04:18PM
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better tools certainly make for a better product, no question. I think this stretches the analogy a little bit though, if we're comparing java and haskell I don't think we can compare a steinway and a casio, maybe a steinway and some off brand.
It all depends on if the goal is to make as much money as fast as possible or to have fun and satisfy yourself intellectually.
There's nothing wrong with loving programming language X, but I wouldn't make career or project decisions based on enjoying the syntax of one vs the other.
imho the difficult part is figuring out the logic of the program, determining which libraries to commit to, writing any novel algorithms and engineering the system so it runs efficiently and doesn't fall over.