A small announcement :)
5 1/2 years after its inception, under the guiding hand of Shae Erisson
(aka shapr), the #haskell IRC channel[1] on freenode has finally reached
400 users!
To chart the growth, we can note that the channel was founded
in late 2001, and had slow growth till 2006, reaching 200 users in
January of that year. Since then growth in the user base has been far
more rapid, reaching 300 users in Dec 2006, and 400 users now, in August
2007.
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
You can see the growth of the channel over here:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/irc
If you've not dropped by the channel yet, feel free to come and chat,
and toss around some lambdas! :)
Cheers,
Don
1. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/IRC_channel
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