How to increase #Haskell adoption in the enterprise and counter #ImposterSyndrome.

Today we had a fire drill in the building (I only just now managed to get back in) and it all seemed so artificial and useless. The rote stand here not there, headcounts, sniggering actors being given cpr before being shunted into an ambulance. I remember thinking that instead of wasting an hour, the actual informational content could easily have been a half a page long printout.

But then, I realise how much of a difference it makes having actually done something (even if pretend). Running drills helps. People are risk averse and when faced with the unknown will often choose inaction, waiting for somrone else to come along and take charge. It gives people just the right amount of confidence to proceed if they have actually worked with it before. It tells them it's not complicated, and there are no hidden surprises.

So perhaps what we need to teach people programming, (especially in an enterprise setting with mounds of legacy or complex codebases) is to run #drills. Do this and that, don't panic, and carry on.