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>> "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
Heh. Depends on how those statistics are collected. ;-)
From what I've seen, Lisp, Earlang and Clean get *way* more publicity
than little old Haskell. Even ML is more widely known.
(E.g., XKCD makes several references to Lisp and Python, but never once
mentions Haskell.)
>> Who the hell has heard of Haskell?
>
> Probably everyone who has ever visited povray.off-topic :P
Only after I heard about it. :-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#.
Depends on whether you mean "discussion" and in people arguing about the
merits of a given language, or "mention" as in people using its name.
I'd say there is *a lot* more material written about C, C++, C#, Java,
etc. than there is about Haskell. Whether they are "discussed" more is
harder to quantify. Certainly Haskell's name is less widely heard.
> 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
And, indeed, being talked about is quite orthogonal to being *used*,
much less being *useful*.
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