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Did not expect that many companies from the Netherlands using Haskell.
by creatio 14y ago
Did not expect that many companies from the Netherlands using Haskell.
- mtrimpe 14y agoProbably because many university students are taught Clean (the 'other' purely functional lazy programming language) [1] which is developed in the Netherlands. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_(programming_language) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_(programming_language)
- Someone 14y agoI would not bet on that. Utrecht (http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/UHC http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/UHC) is in the Netherlands, too. I also expect/guess that it has more CS students than Nijmegen
- tinco 14y agoSo every dutch university teaches a language they themselves wrote the compiler for. The university of twente used to teach FP in a miranda dialect called amanda, which ofcourse was developed at utwente :p
- danieldk 14y agoThe University of Groningen uses Haskell and Hugs for their functional programming course ;). So, there seem to be exceptions to that rule.
- creatio 14y agoI thought Clean was mostly taught only at Radboud, since it originated there.
- chriseidhof 14y agoYeah, Utrecht University has some of the world's leading Haskell researchers, I think it is taught in Groningen as well. In Nijmegen they teach Clean, which is very similar to Haskell.