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Comment by yuvipanda | Hacker News Reader

Infinetly Beta would disagree.

I cant comment on the specific case for your startup but given the wide adoption of PHP/Java/Ruby/Python compared to Haskell/Scala, it comes to a simple eq.

  No. of programmers for the former > No. of programmers for the latter

But as someone in the thread already pointed out, definition of 'good' programmer is also subjective and different in each of the languages, so that will fuzz the simplicity of the above equation.

PS: I'm very impressed with tech community in Pune in general. Very vibrant, diverse and passionate.

Number of programmers is often not proportionate to the number of good programmers.

By your simple equation, you'd be hiring only Turbo C programmers :D

But I do agree with you - if your startup is not primarily a technology one, then maybe it doesn't matter. Throw enough people at it and it might just work

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