Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!husc6!carlton From: carlton@husc9.husc6 (david carlton) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: comp.lang.functional Message-ID: Date: 17 Mar 90 20:44:32 GMT References: <9003131617.AA02925@decwrl.dec.com> <25ffdf21.179d@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <6587@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Organization: /sc4a/ua/carlton/.organization Lines: 23 In-reply-to: allen@sblapis1.cs.sunysb.edu's message of 16 Mar 90 23:24:31 GMT It looks to me as well that the Americans are much less interested than the Europeans about functional programming languagues. In the votes received so far for c.l.f, I've received approximately as many votes from .uk sites as from .edu sites, despite the fact that many more people are at the latter than at the former. (yes?) Of course, there are many americans who aren't at .edu sites, and I've certainly received votes from .com's, .org's, etc. - but I've also received a decent amount of votes from Sweden, the Netherlands, France, and so forth. It's really hard to tell much with precision by looking strictly at the numbers - one would need to know how many people at those sites read news, vote for newsgroups, post, which groups they post to, etc., but it certainly looks to me like there is much more interest in functional programming languages in Europe than in the U.S. If anybody's interested, I'll post various breakdowns of votes by region to comp.lang.functional when it gets started - it's sorta interesting to look at. Or maybe we need comp.lang.functional.sociology? :-) David Carlton carlton@husc4.harvard.edu