liste 2017-02-26 22:18:43
eklavya: what kind of company/team?
liste 2017-02-26 22:19:54
eklavya: higher-ups love references, you should tell them where it's used
liste 2017-02-26 22:22:32
eklavya: so eg http://industry.haskell.org/partners and https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry
eklavya 2017-02-26 22:22:32
they are asking me that if a client comes up, what should they tell them for "why use haskell?", or which clients to pursue
liste 2017-02-26 22:22:32
success stories
liste 2017-02-26 22:22:32
also, if they're competent managers, data
liste 2017-02-26 22:22:32
but I think many are more interested in stories nowadays
eklavya 2017-02-26 22:22:32
I don't even know how serious they are
eklavya 2017-02-26 22:22:32
but there is no harm in trying, right? :)
liste 2017-02-26 22:22:32
marketing has little to do with the subject matter anyway
eklavya 2017-02-26 22:22:32
when they asked me, I was like, "well it's a programming language, so you can make anything you want with it"
eklavya 2017-02-26 22:22:32
and it's good
liste 2017-02-26 22:30:54
but there's a certain "race to the bottom" culture in some areas of software development
eklavya 2017-02-26 22:43:22
oh that is not a problem for me, I would just write Scala instead of Haskell
eklavya 2017-02-26 22:43:48
although in Scala I don't do proper Monadic stuff becasue it doesn't feel natural
eklavya 2017-02-26 22:44:13
but it's expressive and FP enough
eklavya 2017-02-26 22:44:46
bollu: by the way, which 3 companies use Haskell in India?
