From: paul@...
Date: 2002-09-06T07:50:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 10'th most popular ICFP contest language

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, David Douthitt wrote:

> This is interesting!  If you take this as a rough grade of popularity
> and use of languages - it's a surprise to me to see Caml and Haskell
> up on top and Smalltalk and Forth on the bottom... (instead of the
> opposite).
>
> Of course, this isn't a good sample - but whatever... :)


Well it is supposed to be a functional programming contest. It's amazing
that C++ fares so well! Caml and Haskell are both functional programming
languages.

 Paul Prescod