Re:Haskell for a New Decade [pdf]
by JoelMcCracken on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @06:29AM
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Right. It’s frustrating. I’m not under NDA with them but I don’t want to get anyone into trouble, but even if I did name names I don’t think anyone would back it up.
This is why we need more publicity-visible Haskell success stories.
If the "secret weapon"-theory is true, then I guess the companies loudly proclaiming they use Haskell could just be trying to trick their competitors into using it...
Re:Haskell for a New Decade [pdf]
by JoelMcCracken on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:04PM
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Yeah I mean you can take it a lot of ways lol. I think some companies are just secretive about their practices and others are open.
Really the thing that convinced me to really dig into haskell was that there were so many things that I wanted to learn but so much of the extra information had roots in haskell topics. So i basically said "to achieve my goals I need to know haskell even if i never use it for anything practical".
Slowly, as I learned more, I realized it is great. I wish I had chosen to learn haskell 10 years ago instead of like two years ago.
I remember hearing this said about Perl back in the day! Language X is so awesome businesses use it in secret because they don't want their competitors to discover the secret to their success.
Not saying it couldn't happen, but you can say it about any language and it can't really be disproven.