[Haskell-cafe] Getting Haskell in the top 20

[Alex Hammel]

Or the Haskell architecture firm, or the Haskell Indian Nations University,
or Eddie Haskell the character from Leave it to Beaver, etc. etc.

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:53 PM, David Thomas <davidleothomas at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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> >>
> >> http://Van.Tuyl.eu/
> >> http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html
> >> Haskell programming
> >
> > --
> > Kyle Marek-Spartz
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