>>>> From what I've seen, Lisp, Earlang and Clean get *way* more publicity
>>>> than little old Haskell. Even ML is more widely known.
>>>
>>> Hadn't heard of Clean till today.
>>
>> Yeah, Erlang is more widely known.
>     
>     And as an FYI, the only place I encounter people talking about 
> Erlang is on this newsgroup (namely, Darren). Haskell I see elsewhere.

Mmm, interesting. I heard of Erlang way, way before I knew Haskell 
existed. The whole "Ericson uses Erlang for all its mission-critical 
infrastructure, which is a massive vote of confidence for FP". Except 
that, obviously, it isn't, since Erlang is about as functional as Lisp - 
i.e., not very.

It seems Haskell is everybody's least-favourit language.

>>> Lisp used to be the king, but I'm sure if you look at the rate over
>>> the last 2 years, Haskell exceeds it.
>>
>> I don't know about that - ever heard of Emacs?
> 
>     I meant exceeds it in terms of online posts about it.

Maybe.

Maybe that just means that Haskell is way harder to understand than 
Lisp? :-/

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