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by analogsalad 1595 days ago
It looks like the author needs to update their about page:

https://blog.plover.com/meta/about-me.html

> I may be best known for my book Higher-Order Perl, published in 2005 by Morgan Kaufmann, and for my other work in Perl. But as a programmer I consider myself uncommited to any particular language or system. As with everything else, I try to go for breadth rather than for depth.

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I don't understand. What part do you think needs to be updated?
Not the parent, but I'm guessing that you are here asking for a job in Haskell, but the about says:

> ... I consider myself uncommitted to any particular language ...

(Also, you mis-spelled "uncommitted")

I still don't understand. Do you?

(Thanks for pointing out the typo.)

Re typo: You're welcome.

Re the other: I think they feel it's contradictory for you to say that you're uncommitted to any particular language while at the same time specifically saying that you'd like a job programming in Haskell. I can see how someone might feel that there's a tension between those two assertions, but I don't see it as contradictory, nor as implying that the "About" needs modification.

It was probably just a throw-away comment, and not really worth close analysis.

<shrug>