> Recently I read quip somewhere that if some plane had crashed after a
> Haskell(?) conference, it would have wiped out most of the language
> community.
>
> This made me wonder just how big the communities flocking around various
> functional languages really are. If I go only by my own perception
> (availability heuristic, anyone?), the Haskell community must be huge,
> all that talk about monads and stuff, certainly larger than the C#
> community which I barely notice. Now, that can't be true, I obviously
> need a reality check.
>
> So, are there any somewhat objective numbers, maybe based on conference
> attendance, book sales, or job offers? It would be interesting, to have
> an idea of the relative sizes of, say, Erlang, Haskell, (S)ML, OCaml,
> Scheme. I'm not looking for a contest where quality equates to
> popularity, contrariwise, for some this might even be an eye-opener and
> prompt them to move on to a less crowded language.
>
> Michael
>
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> Michael Schuerig
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