From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-10-04T02:33:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. PHP

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:22:40AM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 
> 2. A year or so ago there was an ACM conference on functional languages 
> here in Portland. I didn't go to the conference itself, but I did attend 
> a Saturday Erlang workshop and a Sunday Scheme workshop. At the Erlang 
> workshop, the small (30 or so) room at Portland State University was 
> packed to overflowing -- at least 60 jammed into it -- and at least a 
> dozen of them were from a couple of teams at Amazon, who were hiring.

Missed opportunities . . .

Actually, I like my non-corporate work lifestyle.  If I was looking for a
corporate coder job, though, that'd be the sort of thing that might be
high on my list -- getting picked up by a team attending an Erlang
workshop.  I'd be even more impressed if that happened at the Scheme
workshop.

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