[Haskell-cafe] A very edgy language

Albert Y. C. Lai trebla at vex.net
Sat Jul 7 00:59:47 EDT 2007


Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> Give #haskell is a far larger community than:
> 
>     #lisp
>     #erlang
>     #scheme
>     #ocaml
> 
> As well as
> 
>     #java
>     #javascript
>     #ruby
>     #lua
>     #d
>     #perl6
> 
> Maybe we need to reconsider where the (FP) mainstream is now? :-)

I don't know. #math is larger than #accounting. Is it because math is 
more mainstream than accounting? I bet it is because math is more 
fringe, and so more people ask for help, and mathophiles are less busy. 
#math is comparable in size to #haskell.



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