Tony Morris

the lack of training in our industry is so utterly pathetic, even beyond CS-degree pedagogy shenanigans. good god.

its gotten to the point where people literally not believe me when I say "yeah they got productive in Haskell in a few weeks after training"

I could rant at length about our collective unwillingness to do any kind of training

i'd say lets write a book. but lets make a startup about selling incredibly badass Apple Bongs i nstead. it will rule

Don't think people get that writing Haskell on an existing codebase for a job is vastly easier than learning it from ground up.

Disclaimer: I've never done Haskell full-time. Extrapolating from Scala.

you're spot on, fwiw. but the market forces around hiring FPers also makes this all hard (love market forces)

everyone wants badass FPers yesterday, not to wait 3 weeks to train some good ones, it's incredibly dumb