[Haskell-cafe] Getting Haskell in the top 20

[David Thomas]

As opposed to "Haskell golf shoes".

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Kyle Marek-Spartz
<kyle.marek.spartz at gmail.com> wrote:
> The point is that the TIOBE index doesn't track that stuff directly, but
> indirectly through mentions. If the items you mention result in more
> people talking about "Haskell programming" then it will result in a
> higher index score.
>
>
> Henk-Jan van Tuyl writes:
>
>> Using the words "Haskell" and "programming" in emails probably helps
>> getting Haskell a few places up, but I think there is much more needed to
>> get it in the top twenty. Things like a GHC backend that produces Java
>> bytecode and/or Common Intermediate Language, commercial support, or
>> Microsoft delivering Haskell in a Visual Studio environment. These are
>> things that will raise much more interest in Haskell in the commercial
>> world, and therefore would also interest more programmers.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Henk-Jan van Tuyl
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:37:34 +0100, Jacques Carette <carette at mcmaster.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Make sure the actual words "Haskell programming" occur in as many places
>>> as possible [posts here, on reddit, on stackoverflow, etc].  Not
>>> variants of those words, but those exact words.  Like you did in your
>>> .sig (although that may not be indexed, so it may need to be in the
>>> actual text).
>>>
>>> Get it into people's phrasing that they always speak of "Haskell
>>> programming", not Haskell code, coding, etc, etc.
>>>
>>> Jacques
>>>
>>> On 2014-11-30 11:29 AM, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:
>>>>
>>>> L.S.,
>>>>
>>>> In the Tiobe Index[0], F# jumped from position 43 in June to 13 in July
>>>> and is since than in the
>>>> top twenty. What happened in July and how can we get Haskell in the top
>>>> 20?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Henk-Jan van Tuyl
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [0] http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
>>
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>
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