Re: Is the scala list getting too busy?

I live at UTC+10. IRC would most certainly help the list traffic (some
questions are just one liners), while providing useful banter and
learning. Don't believe me? Pop on over to #haskell and see how fast you
learn something with the usual 300 or so participants (from *every*
timezone) sharing ideas.

I guarantee you, you will not learn the same amount in 1/10 of the time
on a mailing list.

These threads would have executed in minutes, not days, and with a much
more thorough outcome of where they stand today:
* Another nit
* How do I pattern match the following
* two things about defs
* replicate : Int -> T -> Array[T]
    (in fact, this one is answered by a bot in #haskell; type this on
the channel and receive an answer in a second or two: @hoogle Int -> a
-> [a])
* Singleton sets

Tony Morris
http://tmorris.net/



Ted Neward wrote:
> +1 to all. If the discussion went to IRC, I'd be out of it completely.
> (Let's not forget that some of us are on the western side of the Atlantic,
> after all, and thus in a completely different category of time zone. ;-) )
> 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tuncer Ayaz [mailto:tuncer.ayaz@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 2:40 AM
>> To: scala Mailingliste
>> Subject: Re: Is the scala list getting too busy?
>>
>> On 1/29/07, Tony Morris <tmorris@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> G'day Martin,
>>> I think your argument is extremely valid and in fact,
>>> furthers supports the proposition that we should use IRC,
>>> which is real-time collaboration and can easily and quickly
>>> address most of the trivial queries quite easily.
>>>
>>> 20 more days until we can take channel ownership, but in
>>> the meantime, use the ##scala (TWO hashes) channel on the
>>> freenode network.
>>> irc://irc.freenode.net/##scala
>>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> my 3 cents:
>>
>> I like the idea of an IRC channel but it's not a
>> replacement for a mailing list. The kind of discussions
>> you have on a mailing list are different in length and
>> sometimes also content.
>>
>> Email is already asynchronous and allows people from
>> different timezones to discuss without having to be online
>> at the same time. You might achieve some of that with
>> letting your IRC client or a bot run indefinitely waiting
>> for answer or post a question, log out, and try to find
>> an answer in the channel logs published on a website later
>> on. It might even be possible to help first-time users with
>> an IRC bot which answers trivial or frequently asked
>> questions.
>>
>> Voice chat accompanied by a shared collaborative text
>> editor or shared text chat view looks to me like another
>> efficient and also cheap discussion method from all the
>> options we have right now. Don't forget that you can
>> create conference calls (like IRC channels) to discuss
>> in a group. These voice/text channels can be temporary
>> or permanent. Voice chat might of course not be preferred
>> or possible due to technical/personal reasons for everybody.
>> Therefore it's just another option which when it can be used
>> allows pretty efficient discussions due to voice being a
>> powerful medium and the ability to express more than with
>> pure text messages.
>>
>> PS: I tried hard but if my post reads like I dislike IRC
>> believe me I don't. Text messages make it harder to express
>> feelings/opinions but make it easy to let your reply look
>> like it's 'harsh'.
>>
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