Don't feed the (incredibly obvious) troll. He's doing no-one any
good--not even to the O'Caml community. Haskell can learn from
O'Caml, O'Caml can learn from Haskell. I also think that most users
of either language actually know that.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Don Stewart
jon:
I'm not so sure about the library thing, it seems that Haskell has a bigger community,
What gave you that impression?
According to the Debian and Ubuntu package popularity contest results, OCaml currently has 10,635 registered installs compared to 6,606 for GHC. Moreover, this ratio has been constant for several years now.
Why, say, do we see the following results:
* The #haskell IRC channel contains 500 people, the #ocaml channel 70?
* 250 unique developers have uploaded 600 new libraries to hackage.haskell.org in the past year. How's the Caml Hump going?
* On Arch Linux, we find 480 Haskell packages and tools, but only 21 for OCaml. Why the difference?
* The caml-list had 315 posts for June, 08, while haskell-cafe had over 1400
Your statistics focus soley on the Debian-based distribution statitics, which have had an active OCaml group for several years now. What do the registered install stats look like, on say, Arch Linux, or Gentoo?
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