Comments on: Language job trends http://tech.puredanger.com/2010/02/24/language-job-trends/ Alex Miller's technical blog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:39:50 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Alex http://tech.puredanger.com/2010/02/24/language-job-trends/comment-page-1/#comment-186316 Alex Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:58:43 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/?p=789#comment-186316 @Rahul: I think you're wrong about the list. :) First, if you're going to narrow the domain to "computationally intensive apps", I suspect that Ruby is probably not on that list. And I would add Ocaml, Erlang, and Scala (based on people and projects I'm aware of). Although I suspect most "computationally intensive" apps today are actually not written in FP at all and are actually Java or C/C++. @Rahul: I think you’re wrong about the list. :) First, if you’re going to narrow the domain to “computationally intensive apps”, I suspect that Ruby is probably not on that list. And I would add Ocaml, Erlang, and Scala (based on people and projects I’m aware of). Although I suspect most “computationally intensive” apps today are actually not written in FP at all and are actually Java or C/C++.

]]> By: Rahul J http://tech.puredanger.com/2010/02/24/language-job-trends/comment-page-1/#comment-186312 Rahul J Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:21:37 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/?p=789#comment-186312 and Oh, silly me, I had no idea these charts were generating on the fly and I could check on my own. Sweet! and Oh, silly me, I had no idea these charts were generating on the fly and I could check on my own. Sweet!

]]> By: Rahul J http://tech.puredanger.com/2010/02/24/language-job-trends/comment-page-1/#comment-186311 Rahul J Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:19:00 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/?p=789#comment-186311 @Alex by "actual" I meant the languages people are actually using computationally intensive apps. The biggies in FP. I may be wrong about the list but so far every other place I've seen these 4 up there sloggin it out. @Alex by “actual” I meant the languages people are actually using computationally intensive apps. The biggies in FP. I may be wrong about the list but so far every other place I’ve seen these 4 up there sloggin it out.

]]> By: Alex Miller http://tech.puredanger.com/2010/02/24/language-job-trends/comment-page-1/#comment-186303 Alex Miller Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:33:36 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/?p=789#comment-186303 @Rahul: I'm not sure what you mean by "actual" but I can't create every possible permutation of charts. You can click through any of them and create your own variant. Python and Ruby are on the chart above and I suspect Haskell and Clojure are indetectable on a chart with those included. @Rahul: I’m not sure what you mean by “actual” but I can’t create every possible permutation of charts. You can click through any of them and create your own variant. Python and Ruby are on the chart above and I suspect Haskell and Clojure are indetectable on a chart with those included.

]]> By: Rahul J http://tech.puredanger.com/2010/02/24/language-job-trends/comment-page-1/#comment-186287 Rahul J Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:57:44 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/?p=789#comment-186287 Hi Alex, Thanks for getting Python in picture. However I would have loved to see a comparison chart of the _actual_ functional languages out there - Python, Clojure, Ruby and Haskell (both graph types). That'd be very nice. Hi Alex,

Thanks for getting Python in picture. However I would have loved to see a comparison chart of the _actual_ functional languages out there – Python, Clojure, Ruby and Haskell (both graph types). That’d be very nice.

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