<div class="gmail_quote">On 12 February 2011 21:31, Erik de Castro Lopo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mle%2Bhs@mega-nerd.com">mle+hs@mega-nerd.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">Aaron Gray wrote:<br>
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> On 12 February 2011 20:24, Don Stewart <<a href="mailto:dons@galois.com">dons@galois.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > aaronngray.lists:<br>
> > > I was wondering if anyone had an idea or estimate as to how large the<br>
> > > Haskell community is ?<br>
> ><br>
> > No one knows. There are many figures that you could use to estimate the<br>
> > size (e.g. I try to gather signifcant stats in yearly reports about<br>
> > Hackage)<br>
> ><br>
> > * In 2010, for example, 138,000 unique IPs downloaded the Haskell<br>
> > Platform.<br>
> ><br>
> > <a href="http://www.galois.com/~dons/talks/hiw-hackage-y2.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.galois.com/~dons/talks/hiw-hackage-y2.pdf</a><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> Right 138,000, but that would not account for gateways :|<br>
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</div></div>Or people who get Haskell related stuff via their Linux distribution<br>
(specifically Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora, but possibly others as well).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Then there are people who download it, look at it and maybe find it too complex to use ? </div><div><br></div><div>
I am wondering if mailing list statistics would be the best guide ?</div><div><br></div><div>Aaron</div><div><br></div></div>