On 21 Sep 2006, at 08:07, David House wrote:
On 20/09/06, Bulat Ziganshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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