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

Andrew Coppin andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Tue Aug 21 13:29:21 EDT 2007


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
>     #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
>   

...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++?)



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