Jobs: Lisp and Python programmers wanted in the LA area

[Paul Rubin]

Tech HR <tech-hr at smartcharter.com> writes:
> No, it doesn't mean that.  In fact, there is a significant faction in 
> the technical staff (including the CTO) who would like nothing better 
> than to be able to use Lisp instead of Python.  But we have some pretty 
> compelling reasons to stick with Python, not least of which is that it 
> is turning out to be very hard to find Lisp programmers.  (Actually, 
> it's turning out to be hard to find Python programmers too, but it's 
> easier to train a Java programmer or a Perler on Python than Lisp.  We 
> also have fair bit of infrastructure built up in Python at this point.)

There's a lot of Python users around these days, and moving from Lisp
to Python is very easy.  The other way around is maybe a little harder
but shouldn't be too bad.

You know about http://lispjobs.wordpress.com I presume.

Also: 
http://lemonodor.com and lambda-the-ultimate.org may
have more pointers to such things.

> But we're a very young company (barely six months old at this point) so 
> we're willing to listen to most anything at this point.  (We're using 
> Darcs for revision control.  Haskell, anyone?)

Haskell is really a lot different and I think the implementations
aren't as mature as Lisp or Python implementations.  Maybe you want to
think about SML or OCaml.