While we're in a period of reflection, pondering the history of haskell, I've prepared some graphs of activity on the IRC channel. Summary: its growing much as the mailing lists are, with more than 5000 users over the past 5 years. Full details here, http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/irc/ Another interesting note is that lambdabot's get more and more verbose over time, as it provides further features. It's turning into an ide of sorts. -- Don