Well-done! I've said for many months that we need a channel like this! On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Philippa Cowderoy <fli...@flippac.org>wrote:
> Hi folks. As I've been daft enough to get a few things rolling, it looks > like it's fallen on me to announce the new IRC channel, > #haskell-in-depth. > > #haskell has been a roaring success over the last few years, as Don has > repeatedly pointed out. Unfortunately that roar is starting to make it > hard for some to participate - there's so much traffic that it can be > difficult to fit an additional conversation in. We're starting to hit > the limits as to how far one channel can take us, and that means we need > to explore ways to divide up traffic. > > Actually, this isn't entirely new - a number of years ago now, > #haskell-blah was formed as a space for off-topic (and sometimes > less-than-worksafe) conversation among #haskell regulars. We also > created #haskell-overflow, but it doesn't see much use except among some > of the cabal implementors because it's hard to know when to take the > conversation you're currently in to -overflow. > > We need channels that people start their conversations in, not ones to > send people to! So we're trying a space for in-depth discussion. The new > channel is open to everyone, just like #haskell. But just as we're > hoping for certain kinds of discussion, there're others we want to > avoid. If you need to know how to use monads so you can do IO, > #haskell-in-depth isn't the place. On the other hand, if you want to > discuss how Haskell's monads compare to the category theory or what the > category theory can tell us about how individual monads relate to the > language as a whole, -in-depth is a good place! In particular, we're > hoping that the kind of category theory discussions that give the > mistaken impression you actually need to know CT will increasingly live > in #haskell-in-depth. > > We're not after a theory channel though - architectural discussion, > compiler implementation, possible type system extensions, library > design, all are good subjects. > > Anyway, I shouldn't ramble on for too long here - #haskell-in-depth is > open for business and we look forward to seeing you there! > > -- > Philippa Cowderoy <fli...@flippac.org> > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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