Things I Learned from ACCU 2010

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Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:57:31 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:

> bearophile wrote:
>> Being Haskell not easy, it's even possible for me to not understand the
>> explanation if some Haskell expert eventually explains me why that
>> Haskell program was slow :-)
> 
> It's statements like this (and I've heard this repeatedly) that makes me
> wonder what the value of Haskell actually is to conventional programming
> tasks and regular programmers.

Regular programmers just die away. At some point we don't need crappy 
results anymore.

The software engineering is often about reimplementing things. If a level 
1 novice writes a blog engine, you need level 2..20 programmers to fix 
all the sql injection / xss bugs and caching issues. After that, even 
better programmers finally write maintainable and readable code. But it 
doesn't scale. That's why companies like Facebook hire guys like Andrei 
to fix the bugs caused by the 1st generation PHP newbies.