Re: [Haskell-cafe] #haskell irc channel reaches 400 users

2007-08-22 Thread Marc A. Ziegert
i interpret it as this: all [ usage x usage y || fun_to_talk_about x fun_to_talk_about y | let lang=[minBound .. maxBound] -- C++,Haskell,Java,etc. , x-lang , y-lang , irc_channel_users x irc_channel_users y ] - marc Am Dienstag, 21. August 2007 schrieb Albert Y. C.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] #haskell irc channel reaches 400 users

2007-08-22 Thread Derek Elkins
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 23:24 +0200, Marc A. Ziegert wrote: i interpret it as this: all [ usage x usage y || fun_to_talk_about x fun_to_talk_about y | let lang=[minBound .. maxBound] -- C++,Haskell,Java,etc. , x-lang , y-lang , irc_channel_users x irc_channel_users y

Re: [Haskell-cafe] #haskell irc channel reaches 400 users

2007-08-21 Thread Andrew Coppin
Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: 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 #perl472 ##c++457 ##c 445 #python

Re: [Haskell-cafe] #haskell irc channel reaches 400 users

2007-08-21 Thread Albert Y. C. Lai
Andrew Coppin wrote: ...does this mean Haskell is officially harder to understand than Lisp, Java, Perl and O'Caml? :-} (OTOH, does this mean Haskell is easier to understand than PHP or C++?) Or, Haskell is the easiest to understand of them all. Reason: Extremely large channel means so hard

[Haskell-cafe] #haskell irc channel reaches 400 users

2007-08-20 Thread Donald Bruce Stewart
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,