Tony Morris

I'm interviewing people for functional programming and/or #Scala knowledge. Is there an existing coding test for this?

I saw this excellent yow talk where the speaker suggested using Haskell as there were to many gotchas in Scala to be useful.

one of the people I interviewed tried to learn #Haskell but used Stack and so gave up <- 100% serious

I love haskell, hate stack. I still don't really understand the point of it. I guess it proposes to solve dependency hell?

Dependency hell isn't really a problem in Haskell like it once was. `cabal new-build` allows you to do more than `stack` but it depends on upstream package maintainers doing their job - which is usually fine so long as you use reasonably common packages.

I'll keep saying it, Stack just works on Windows, that's why I use it.