Re: [Haskell-cafe] #haskell irc channel reaches 400 users

21 Aug 2007


      Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
...
This puts the channel at around the 13th largest community of the 5500
freenode channels. For comparision, a sample of the state of the other
language communities:
#php         485
    #perl        472
    ##c++        457
    ##c          445
    #python      430
    #ruby-lang   420
...
#haskell     411
#lisp        246
    ##java       236
    ##javascript 226
    #perl6       144
    #scheme      139
    #erlang      118
    #lua         105
    #ocaml        58
...does this mean Haskell is officially harder to understand than Lisp, 
Java, Perl and O'Caml? :-}

(OTOH, does this mean Haskell is easier to understand than PHP or C++?)

Re: [Haskell-cafe] #haskell irc channel reaches 400 users

Andrew Coppin