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Re:Ask HN: Why would anyone choose Haskell to develop applic... by foldr on Sunday March 06, 2022 @11:52AM (#30578852)
>Go attracts mediocrity and not in a good way, it also actively repels the "right " people if you want to hire for highest intellectual horsepower for a given budget.

This is painting with a pretty broad brush. I like Haskell (and first learned it before it was cool, in the early 2000s), but I also enjoy coding in Go. Not everyone is strongly driven by choice of programming language in their job search. If you do hire someone who desperately wants to write Haskell code, you might find that they spend more time tinkering with advanced Haskell features than they do adding business value.

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Re:Ask HN: Why would anyone choose Haskell to develop applic... by ForOldHack on Sunday March 06, 2022 @03:46PM (#30581105)
What exactly did Dijkstra say about Cobol Programmers?

In 1975, Edsgar Dijkstra famously proclaimed that “The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence[sic].” This undoubtedly led to the decline of teaching COBOL in universities, but it remained the dominant business language.

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