[Haskell-cafe] Getting Haskell in the top 20

[Markus Läll]

I thought we were trying to avoid success?

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Alberto G. Corona <agocorona at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My contribution for today:
>
> haskell programming, haskell programming, haskell programming.
>
>
> 2014-12-01 22:08 GMT+01:00 Alex Hammel <ahammel87 at gmail.com>:
>
>> 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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