On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:27:24 +0100, Don Stewart
A small announcement :)
7 years after its inception, under the guiding hand of Shae Erisson (aka shapr), the #haskell IRC channel[1] on freenode has reached 600 concurrent users! It's now in the top 3 language channels by size.
Some more statistics can be found at http://www.langpop.com/ An interesting quote from this site: It's interesting to note how languages like Haskell and Erlang are talked about a lot, despite scoring fairly low on the normalized popularity chart above. People are interested in them, but haven't begun to use them on a large scale yet. We have to create more webpages about Haskell (containing the words "programming" and "Haskell") to score better! :) And there should be more Haskell jobs :) Other sites with statistics: http://www.tiobe.com/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/comp.lang-statistics/ An article about what makes a language popular: http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html -- Regards, Henk-Jan van Tuyl -- http://functor.bamikanarie.com http://Van.Tuyl.eu/ --