Hacker News Reader

Comment by bbarn | Hacker News Reader

Yeah, this is basically what I came to say. Haskell's search volume could be because it's more difficult to use than other languages, or is more poorly documented. It would certainly explain Sharepoint being so high during the work week, having struggled with Sharepoint Configuration Mountain before.

View on HN

That doesn't explain a relative search increase on the weekend. The stats shown are not cross-language comparisons.

You're right. Score one for misleading graphs next to each other though. The X axis scale for the right one makes it look much more dramatic than the left side, which is actually the real story.

To be honest I find Haskell as one of the better documented languages. Hoogle + Hackage module documentation and being able to look straight at the source code is great.

I guess newbies will find some of the compile messages hard to understand compared to more standard languages, however.

Hum... If you look at the later graph, Haskell's volume is among the lowest volumes of anything there.

What really makes sense. SO format does not suit Haskell very well.

Could you elaborate on why Stack Overflow is ill-suited to Haskell?

Haskell is the land of deep concepts that lead to huge powers.

Hoogle will already tell you most of what you can learn to small, fact-focused, objective and unanimous explanations about real code. SO intellectual avoidance rules hit much before people can explain anything useful.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com