> I think your view of Haskell's use in industry is skewed by HN It’s really funny you say that, I view HN as being frequently anti-FP. I guess when you split

> I think your view of Haskell's use in industry is skewed by HN It’s really funny you say that, I view HN as being frequently anti-FP. I guess when you split the difference everyone is a bit unhappy. In my case I’ve been programming for over 30 years and only on HN for a few months, so I don’t feel like it’s swayed me much, you never know. I’ve read Graham for years and he certainly has been an influence. Overall Haskell alone isn’t that big in industry, but it most clearly illustrates many FP concepts and is the originating point (or an early adopter) of new tech that makes it into other languages. If you look at all the jobs in Scala, Haskell, Clojure, F#, OCaml, Elm, Erlang, and PureScript. Then you throw in all the jobs in multi-paradigm languages Python, JS, etc. with managers or coding standards that dictate functional techniques, then subtract the particularly awful soul crushing dead-end jobs (that regardless of paradigm or language) probably none of us want, I think you may be underestimating the representation of FP. Ultimately when I hire someone with a 4 year degree from a research university, I’m not expecting them to have 100% vocational training, they should be literate in at least a couple languages, but I’m much more interested in knowledge of concepts and adaptability. The best Python programmer I’ve worked with described his junior year as being almost entirely Standard ML. I think he was better for it.