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Re:Haskell Problems for a New Decade by kick on Friday January 24, 2020 @09:07AM (#22138333)
Haskellers are in a rough spot, then, aren't they?

All of the pretension that comes with knowing one of the functional languages that has a community that pretends to know math, and they end up working retail. Ow.

Joking diss aside, though, I definitely feel for people who love languages with limited reach.

(Also, I think GitHub hired a few people explicitly for Haskell, which is worth mentioning because Microsoft is vaguely more reputable than most of the companies listed in this thread.)

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Re:Haskell Problems for a New Decade by yakshaving_jgt on Friday January 24, 2020 @09:35AM (#22138605)
That’s not what the word “pretension” means.
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Re:Haskell Problems for a New Decade by kick on Friday January 24, 2020 @10:37AM (#22139130)
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/pretensi...

the act of trying to appear or sound more important or clever than you are

Some irony in your comment. I meant exactly what was said.

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Re:Haskell Problems for a New Decade by yakshaving_jgt on Friday January 24, 2020 @11:10AM (#22139461)
Sorry, you are right. I had confused this for the word "pretence".
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Re:Haskell Problems for a New Decade by kick on Friday January 24, 2020 @01:21PM (#22140974)
It's all groovy! We all confuse words sometimes, English overloads many of them pretty heavily.
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