[Haskell-cafe] A very edgy language

Andrew Coppin andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Sat Jul 7 04:37:00 EDT 2007


Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> andrewcoppin:
>   
>> Yeah, #haskell is pretty big - 300 people idling and 1-3 people actually
>> talking. :-P
>>     
>
> Hey! We answer questions and write code for free, and you misrepresent
> the population anyway:
>
>     Maximum users seen in #haskell: 354, currently: 318 (97.8%), active: 53 (16.7%)
>                                                                          ^^^^^^^^^^
>
> In fact, a lot of your exploratory/introductory questions would be most
> efficiently answered on irc. Do drop by!
>
>     http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/IRC_channel
>   

Unfortunately, when I ask questions most people seem to either ignore me 
or not know what the answer is. :-(

Also, it's quite fiddly to ask long and/or complicated question in IRC. 
Gotta type really fast. ;-)



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