Do you put Mensa on your resume?
While I think there's probably some low-range filtering going on with Haskell, I think that only shows that Haskell isn't that fit for writing much production software, since, for all the "smart people" very little has been done with Haskell.
What I think Haskell does attract are people that like to develop overwrought, abstract, and ornate systems. Another reason it hasn't proven to be terribly useful for production software.
I do like the experimental space languages like Haskell play in, and think there is strong net benefit to our field as a whole, by finding ideas that work when brought into that field. So I like people out there mucking around with different programming idioms/domains/approaches.
If I see significant Haskell or Lisp experience on a resume, I tend to be wary.
While I think there's probably some low-range filtering going on with Haskell, I think that only shows that Haskell isn't that fit for writing much production software, since, for all the "smart people" very little has been done with Haskell.
What I think Haskell does attract are people that like to develop overwrought, abstract, and ornate systems. Another reason it hasn't proven to be terribly useful for production software.
I do like the experimental space languages like Haskell play in, and think there is strong net benefit to our field as a whole, by finding ideas that work when brought into that field. So I like people out there mucking around with different programming idioms/domains/approaches.
If I see significant Haskell or Lisp experience on a resume, I tend to be wary.