[Haskell-cafe] Type system madness

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

andrewcoppin:
> Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> >On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 08:57:58PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
> >  
> >>>- Join us on #haskell on IRC.  It's extremely chatty, and you'll be 
> >>>welcome.
> >>>      
> >>Not in my experience, no.
> >>
> >>(Maybe I ask the wrong way... but almost everybody seems to simply ignore 
> >>me. Actually, usually when I go there absolutely nobody is speaking at 
> >>all. What time zone do these people live in?)
> >>    
> >
> >You were just unlucky.  50% of the time #haskell is silent, the other
> >50% it's intolerably noisy.
> >  
> 
> ...really?
> 
> Mmm. Hence my comment about time zones... Almost every time I go in 
> there, there's about 300+ idling, but only 2, maybe 3 people actually 
> speaking...

Pick your most active timezone:

    http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/irc/haskell-07.html

Generally though, there's no quiet times. You'll usually find many
people available. Late night US and UK time, and early morning UK time
are fairly busy.

-- Don