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by Animats 3884 days ago
Right. This is from a resume site. How many people are going to put on their resume that they dislike something?

Analyzing the main Stack Overflow site would be more useful. You go to Stack Overflow when something doesn't work.
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gaius 3884 days ago
No it's good, you don't want to be bait-and-switched. So many job ads now say "Haskell/OCaml/Erlang..." But they're actually Java shops. Better to put the warning up front.
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gruez 3884 days ago
> So many job ads now say "Haskell/OCaml/Erlang..." But they're actually Java shops.

Why would they do that?

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btilly 3884 days ago
They are hiring for the new system they are trying to develop, and supporting the legacy code they can't get rid of. They are always overoptimistic on how much time will be spent on new vs old.
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gaius 3884 days ago
That's a charitable idea but the real reason is bait-and-switch, a "creative" solution to being unable to recruit.
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