Linspire Development Standardizes on Haskell
The OS team at Linspire, Inc. would like to announce that we are standardizing on Haskell as our preferred language for core OS development.
Linspire/Freespire Core OS Team and Haskell
I haven't used Haskell for development, so I can't say how wise this decision is technically. But I'm betting they attract a much better candidate pool, for no other reason than people who learn Haskell typically do it because they want to learn something new, they want to discover new ways of thinking. Contrast to most of the Java/C#/VB ravel who only learned the language to get or keep a job, and whose resumes will bury you if you post openings for those languages. (yeah, I'm making big sweeping generalizations, but you know I'm mostly right)
Posted May 15, 2006 12:20 PM
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Technically, it's not a bad decision: Haskell is a great language. But I can help but wonder why they didn't go for O'Caml instead, seeing as it appears to me to be a better choice for systems programming and they're using it already.
Keith Gaughan, May 15, 2006 12:53 PM
Yea! That's awesome.
Nick Mudge, May 15, 2006 1:27 PM
I think you are correct though. I personally feel "specialization" is extremely uncommon now because patterns, technology and skills are such comodities in software development. Ironically, I switched to coding java full time over 2 years ago and yet I get nothing but low level C/C++ and yes even Ada job offers because you simply can not find the talent.
Bob Balfe, May 15, 2006 1:28 PM
Paul Graham said the same thing about Python
splintor, May 15, 2006 5:21 PM
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