On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 13:39 +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
Give #haskell is a far larger community than:
Well, Haskell clearly has a well developed IRC community. Using Google to search Usenet posts in 2007: Haskell: 21000 Lisp: 29000 Erlang: 2500 Ocaml: 7000 Ruby: 145000 Python: 154000 Perl: 390000 (This includes fa.haskell and probably other mailing list gateways as well.) Using Google Scholar to search for papers from 2007: Haskell: 1310 Ruby: 1670 Lisp: 316 Ocaml: 38 Java: 7650 Unfortunately, all this proves is that if your language shares its name with a large number of people, it will be mentioned a lot in scientific papers :-)
Maybe we need to reconsider where the (FP) mainstream is now? :-)
Getting there, at least. -k