On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 14:33 +0100, Claus Reinke wrote: > > As we sit here riding the Haskell wave: > > > > http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/tmp/cafe.png > > > > with nearly 2000 (!) people reading haskell-cafe@, perhaps its time to > > think some more about how to build and maintain this lovely Haskell > > community we have.
> - haskell-cafe is meant to be the general forum, that shouldn't change. > but i think there is potential to spin off one or two more specialist > lists (not too many, or they'll dry out, and not too specific, or they > won't attract the haskell-cafe style of membership and content; we > also do not want to start cross-postings to keep the synergies of > a multitopic forum). > > the most obvious one being 'haskell-performance' for shootout > entries, 'how do i improve this?', 'what is wrong here?', and 'why > isn't haskell slow?' style of questions, profiling, space&time leaks, > compiler benchmarks, optimizations, transformations, > representations, libs, tools, papers, etc. I really like this. ^ > another possible candidate, judging from mails and blog postings, > might be 'haskell-math', for numeric and algebra libs, apps, tools, > classes, theory, and math-related algorithms and data structures, > and general discussions. This I'm much much less certain or keen about. Most such questions start as legitimate Haskell questions. Furthermore, I think the replies are often helpful to people who probably wouldn't subscribe to a 'haskell-math' list. (Still it would be nice to have such a venue to just talk about the relation between Haskell and math.) I don't think almost anyone has a problem with such discussions and it seems that many "non-theoretical" readers enjoy them. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
