On 21 Sep 2006, at 08:07, David House wrote:
On 20/09/06, Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.ziganshin@gmail.com> wrote:
i definitely think that to rise up Haskell popularity we need now to create web forum.
I happen to think this would be a good idea from a newbie's point of view. For one-off questions (or perhaps two-off), it's far easier to register on a forum and post a question than it is to:
1) Subscribe to the mailing list 2) Set up a mail filter 3) Post your question 4) Delete annoying cruft which isn't interesting 5) Finally get to the answers to your question.
Hmm - well, speaking as a newbie who signed up only yesterday to ask a technical question, it wasn't that hard, and I got an answer to my question before I got all the annoying cruft about web forums... :-) Personally, I'm not convinced that there's much difference in practice between a web-based mail archive and a web forum - there are good and bad web forums and mail archives out there, and some forums require you to sign up before you can post anything anyway... Robert