On Saturday 21 August 2010 15:35:08, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
A Bazillion is an imaginary number meant to indicate something extremely large: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazillion#-illion
Yes, but 'extremely large' numbers mean different things, depending on whether we talk about for example midges in Scotland (bazillion >= 10^20), people in a football stadium (bazillion >= 5*10^4) or people at your sister's wedding (bazillion >= 50). So how much is a bazillion when it comes to Haskell programmers?
Since the population of the planet is roughly 6 Billion, I would guess that Andrew is under the miscomprehension that aliens make up the vast majority of Haskell users
Ordinary people don't use Haskell, so if you're using Haskell, you're ipso facto an alien ;-)
(or else he is taking into account everyone who will ever use Haskell as well, since after all Haskell will eventually replace all other inferior languages to become the One True Language!).
That'd be Haskell''' rather than Haskell.
It's a kind of magic.
I believe Don wrote a successor to lambdabot to generate all of his libraries for him, and Galois is just a front to make it appear that multiple people are working on these libraries when in reality it's just his bot.
Or that.