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> ..but Haskell was an easy target for blame by management. I'd say that's Haskell's biggest problem in a professional setting. I would say that's a software c

by proc0 7y ago

> ..but Haskell was an easy target for blame by management. I'd say that's Haskell's biggest problem in a professional setting. I would say that's a software company's biggest problem instead. I really don't understand how someone with little or no coding experience can be in a leadership position with other programmers who are supposed to be problem solvers and have all the details of how to build something. The bigger the gap in knowledge, the more communication breaks down and the hierarchical structure becomes useless.

whateveracct 7y ago
> someone with little or no coding experience can be in a leadership position I had one where the leader in question had coding experience but didn't know Haskell at all. Despite this [1], they tried to read some code (that the Haskellers has no issues with) and couldn't, so he deemed the codebase unreadable and eventually called for a rewrite. Worse, during the debate about the rewrite, there was constant discussion about how the code was unreadable and bad, but it was never sourced to this leader. Instead it was asserted with weasel words only. [1] Maybe it was because of this..this leader was driven by confidence in their experience and seniority.