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Hey all, I thought I'd just make a quick advertisement for the Haskell Stack Overflow community: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/haskell as a forum for questions and answers on beginner to advanced Haskell problems. The site is very active, with roughly as many questions being asked on SO as on haskell-cafe these days. One of the benefits of a site like SO as a forum is the ability to record and link to prior work, edit for technical errors, and easily search and categorize past answers. It is also less prone to noise, for those suffering from cafe overload. Cheers, Don
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Don Stewart
Hey all,
I thought I'd just make a quick advertisement for the Haskell Stack Overflow community:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/haskell
as a forum for questions and answers on beginner to advanced Haskell problems.
The site is very active, with roughly as many questions being asked on SO as on haskell-cafe these days.
One of the benefits of a site like SO as a forum is the ability to record and link to prior work, edit for technical errors, and easily search and categorize past answers. It is also less prone to noise, for those suffering from cafe overload.
I would also recommend SO. If you have trouble following along you can also use twitter to see when new Haskell questions are posted: http://twitter.com/#!/haskellstoverfl Jason
One of the benefits of a site like SO as a forum is the ability to record and link to prior work, edit for technical errors, and easily search and categorize past answers. It is also less prone to noise, for those suffering from cafe overload.
I would also recommend SO.
My only experience of SO is that I asked a question once, and to this day it has still only been viewed a grand total of 6 times. (And I think that was just me looking to see if there were any replies yet.) OTOH, it wasn't Haskell-related.
On May 4, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote:
One of the benefits of a site like SO as a forum is the ability to record and link to prior work, edit for technical errors, and easily search and categorize past answers. It is also less prone to noise, for those suffering from cafe overload.
I would also recommend SO.
My only experience of SO is that I asked a question once, and to this day it has still only been viewed a grand total of 6 times. (And I think that was just me looking to see if there were any replies yet.) OTOH, it wasn't Haskell-related.
I think Haskell questions on SO tend to the opposite extreme; no matter how poorly thought-out the question, the Haskell community will descend on it like a swarm of helpful piranhas. Languages like Java and C# have such an overwhelmingly huge number of questions (the quality of which are, frankly, quite poor on average) that very few people are going to actually sit and look through even 1% of them. Haskell, on the other hand, has a small enough volume that people can at least skim the ones from the last past day or two in a fairly small amount of time. -- James
On Wednesday 04 May 2011 23:02:35, James Cook wrote:
I think Haskell questions on SO tend to the opposite extreme; no matter how poorly thought-out the question, the Haskell community will descend on it like a swarm of helpful piranhas.
That's a great picture. I like it. Haskell, where helpful piranhas swim :D
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 5:02 PM, James Cook
Haskell, on the other hand, has a small enough volume that people can at least skim the ones from the last past day or two in a fairly small amount of time.
They can and, in fact, do. Or at least I do, at any rate, even when I don't really have time to answer any. And I suspect Don Stewart does as well since by himself he's something like 20% of the answers by volume. Suffice it to say, questions with the [haskell] tag don't get overlooked. Overall, based on my experiences and glancing at the question lists, I'd estimate that most questions tagged [haskell] get at least 50 views and at least one useful answer within a few hours of being posted, depending on time of day and how many of the more prolific answerers are around. There're maybe 25 questions with no answers at all, which is less than 1% of the questions in the tag, and of the unanswered questions many are either very poorly thought out, very difficult to answer, or highly specific to some tool or library that not everyone may be familiar with. - C.
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