You're right. What I was trying to say by Haskell programmer was more like an industry veteran. 10+ years experience in Haskell/etc, zero knowledge of pointer a

You're right. What I was trying to say by Haskell programmer was more like an industry veteran. 10+ years experience in Haskell/etc, zero knowledge of pointer arithmetic. There seems to be this ineffable force tilting the scales to create more C veterans that don't know monads (I could find you one) than there are Haskell veterans that don't know pointer arithmetic. Age, popularity, libraries, etc all tie into this, but I still think there's significance amidst the noise.