Re: [Haskell] Haskell web forum

2006-09-21 Thread Christian Neumann
Am Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:07:36 +0100 schrieb "David House" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I happen to think this would be a good idea from a newbie's point of > view. As a real Haskell newbie I must say that this is (IMHO) a very bad idea. It's annoying to register on yet another forum just to ask one quest

Re: [Haskell] Haskell web forum

2006-09-21 Thread Robert Stroud
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 per

Re: [Haskell] Haskell web forum

2006-09-21 Thread David House
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

RE: [Haskell] Haskell web forum

2006-09-20 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Niklas Broberg | Sent: 20 September 2006 21:41 | To: Jon Fairbairn | Cc: haskell@haskell.org | Subject: Re: [Haskell] Haskell web forum | | > More potential than what we have already: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general >? | | Yes. How could we use that to create subforu

Re: [Haskell] Haskell web forum

2006-09-20 Thread Niklas Broberg
More potential than what we have already: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general >? Yes. How could we use that to create subforums for particular projects or subcommunities? /Niklas ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www

Re: [Haskell] Haskell web forum

2006-09-20 Thread Taral
On 9/20/06, Niklas Broberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is much easier to keep conversations in context in a forum, and to search for old conversations. It's all there, all the time. Eh, I don't have this problem. I use gmail. -- Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "You can't prove anything." -- Göd

Re: [Haskell] Haskell web forum

2006-09-20 Thread Jon Fairbairn
On 2006-09-20 at 21:19+0200 "Niklas Broberg" wrote: > A mailing list will never be enough. Really? > A forum has way way more potential. More potential than what we have already: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general >? Jón -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fai

Re: [Haskell] Haskell web forum

2006-09-20 Thread Niklas Broberg
> i definitely think that to rise up Haskell popularity we need now to > create web forum. I disagree with this. I don't like web forums, I don't use web forums if I can avoid it. They're way more work than mailing lists. And I disagree with you. I don't like mailing lists, and I don't use them

Re: [Haskell] Haskell web forum

2006-09-20 Thread Gour
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 14:02 -0500, Taral wrote: > Plenty of popular languages out there with no web forum. Haskell is more than just a language - it's the community ;) Sincerely, Gour signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part _

Re: [Haskell] Haskell web forum

2006-09-20 Thread Taral
On 9/20/06, Bulat Ziganshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i definitely think that to rise up Haskell popularity we need now to create web forum. I disagree with this. I don't like web forums, I don't use web forums if I can avoid it. They're way more work than mailing lists. Plenty of popular lang

[Haskell] Haskell web forum

2006-09-20 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello haskell, i definitely think that to rise up Haskell popularity we need now to create web forum. comparing to mail lists, it allows to faster "include in communication" because all previous discussions are easily available and simplifies participation for "strangers" that just have several qu