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> use Haskell as their “secret weapon” and do not advertise it, in fact those who could speak to details are all under NDA. I remember hearing this said about
by goto11 6y ago
> use Haskell as their “secret weapon” and do not advertise it, in fact those who could speak to details are all under NDA.
I remember hearing this said about Perl back in the day! Language X is so awesome businesses use it in secret because they don't want their competitors to discover the secret to their success.
Not saying it couldn't happen, but you can say it about any language and it can't really be disproven.
- JoelMcCracken 6y agoRight. It’s frustrating. I’m not under NDA with them but I don’t want to get anyone into trouble, but even if I did name names I don’t think anyone would back it up. This is why we need more publicity-visible Haskell success stories.
- goto11 6y agoIf the "secret weapon"-theory is true, then I guess the companies loudly proclaiming they use Haskell could just be trying to trick their competitors into using it...
- JoelMcCracken 6y agoYeah I mean you can take it a lot of ways lol. I think some companies are just secretive about their practices and others are open. Really the thing that convinced me to really dig into haskell was that there were so many things that I wanted to learn but so much of the extra information had roots in haskell topics. So i basically said "to achieve my goals I need to know haskell even if i never use it for anything practical". Slowly, as I learned more, I realized it is great. I wish I had chosen to learn haskell 10 years ago instead of like two years ago.
- dTal 6y agoNot only can you, it is standardly asserted about a variety of obscure, fun languages. Lisp, APL, and J/K spring to mind.