4 ms·

Is Haskell taught in college at any Chilean university? Without it being taught to undergrads, it will be hard to find devs locally.

• dtbx 14y ago
  No, it's totally unknown here in Chile. Even professors don't know anything about a language named Haskell.
  • andrewcooke 14y ago
    that's not true! the dynamic languages group (a meetup.com-organised thing - perhaps started by continuum? - here in santiago) had at least one talk on it - i know because i was there! although i admit i don't think anyone said they were using it in production... [and the last conversation i had with someone from u chile's computing dept was on datalog. so it's hard to imagine they wouldn't know about something as popular as haskell. and a friend in the engineering/geophysics dept (don't know the correct name - contract research for mines) uses it. and...]
  • bootload 14y ago
    "... it's totally unknown here in Chile. ..." Out of curiosity, how did you learn Haskell?
    • dtbx 14y ago
      I was not confortable with D and C++, and I was curious about Haskell.