🚀 go-pugleaf

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