Don't feed the (incredibly obvious) troll. He's doing no-one any good--not even to the O'Caml community. Haskell can learn from O'Caml, O'Caml can learn from Haskell. I also think that most users of either language actually know that.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jon: >> > I'm not so sure about the library thing, it seems that Haskell has a >> > bigger community, >> >> What gave you that impression? >> >> According to the Debian and Ubuntu package popularity contest results, OCaml >> currently has 10,635 registered installs compared to 6,606 for GHC. Moreover, >> this ratio has been constant for several years now. > > Why, say, do we see the following results: > > * The #haskell IRC channel contains 500 people, the #ocaml channel 70? > > * 250 unique developers have uploaded 600 new libraries to > hackage.haskell.org in the past year. > How's the Caml Hump going? > > * On Arch Linux, we find 480 Haskell packages and tools, but only 21 > for OCaml. Why the difference? > > * The caml-list had 315 posts for June, 08, while haskell-cafe had > over 1400 > > Your statistics focus soley on the Debian-based distribution statitics, > which have had an active OCaml group for several years now. What do the > registered install stats look like, on say, Arch Linux, or Gentoo? > > -- Don > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
