I've seen this happen with Perl and Ruby (both replaced with Python). Being able to replace workers is not an insignificant business risk. A small company outsi

I've seen this happen with Perl and Ruby (both replaced with Python). Being able to replace workers is not an insignificant business risk. A small company outside of a major tech hub just can't support the development of software in nonstandard languages. I love Haskell, but I couldn't tell my boss that we should invest time in learning yet another technology to train people in just because its my favorite language.