[aklug] Speaking of web development - Re: Haskell Poll

When I lived in Raleigh there were groups for php, mysql, drupal, and
owasp that met monthly, but this is the only quality nerd-group I've
been able to find since my move up. Are there any developer groups in
Anchorage?

It'd be nice to have people I could bounce ideas off of who are in my
timezone,

--Jason

btw - I use php because someone offered me a buncha money to use it, my
background was in c/c++ so it was easy to learn, and the huge install
base appealed to my whorish nature

On 04/23/2011 03:17 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:
> * Christopher Howard<christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> [110423 09:49]:
>> Are there any Haskell programmers on this list? If so, could you rate
>> yourself:
>>
>> 1) Learned it once (say, for a class) but never used it seriously.
>> 2) Used to program with it regularly but don't anymore.
>> 3) Program with it regularly.
>>
>> It would be helpful and interesting for me to know who on this list has
>> a background in Haskell.
> :) I *looked* at it. I looked at it seriously, but also looked at
> http://www.langpop.com/ and having worked for years with rebol,
> which doesn't even show up there and is an *awsome* programming
> language that runs rings around everything else that I have ever
> used in terms of byte-for-byte productivity, I did not pursue it.
>
> I note that haskell is way up there under the heading:
> "What languages are people talking about?"
> and this is an illustration of the freelance programmers
> 'Delimma of the Pragmatics'
> which is to ask oneself: "Do I want to use what I like and think is
> really good? And do I want to use what is in demand?"
>
> Here's a real-world example. I do a lot of coding for the Real
> Estate market. I do it in python (having discontinued rebol because
> of its lack of "demand"). The most "demanded" language among the
> Real Estate Community is PHP. Yuck! But the demand is there!
>
> But I'm not trying to discourage you... :) keep doin' what you do.
> The hell with 'em.
>

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Received on Mon Apr 25 16:00:33 2011