Invisible schrieb:

> "Despite its distance from traditional programming, and its relative 
> lack of common use, Haskell has become one of the most talked-about 
> languages on the Internet."
> 
> Um, WTF? No it hasn't!

Well, according to the statistics on www.langpop.org it has. More 
talked-about than even C# or Ruby. And you can't argue about statistics, 
can you? :P


> If it weren't for the fact that I happen to use Haskell, I would never 
> have heard of it. And if that sounds like a tautology, I've never used 
> Python, don't know what Python code even looks like. But I've heard of 
> it. Ditto for PHP, Ruby, ASP, C# and so on. Never seen any code, never 
> used them, but I've certainly heard of them. Who the hell has heard of 
> Haskell?

Probably everyone who has ever visited povray.off-topic :P

Actually it seems to me that there's more discussion about Haskell here 
than, for instance, PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl, Java, and possibly even C#.


Though I guess the discussions we've seen here only serve the point that 
whether a language is *talked* about is quite orthogonal to whether 
people consider it any *relevant* :-P

So the statistics can also be interpreted that Haskell is a much more 
polarizing topic than other languages of similar relevance - or that it 
just happens to be the current favorite subject for programmers' idle 
smalltalk (no pun intended) ;-)

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