[jamesaguilar]

Nah, the interest for new things from big companies always peaks shortly after the announcement. If you cut off the outliers e.g. before day 45 then this graph would look much rosier. Or, to put it another way, would the graph for any successful language like Python or C look any different in the first year after the initial announcement?

[SRG]

Yes, Haskell IRC activity pattern is different:

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/irc/

Compare also:

http://gmane.org/plot-rate.php?group=gmane.comp.lang.go.gene...

http://gmane.org/plot-rate.php?group=gmane.comp.python.gener...

http://gmane.org/plot-rate.php?group=gmane.comp.lang.haskell...

[jamesaguilar]

Those languages were all quite old and popular by the time those graphs started. It's not apples-to-apples to compare languages with a decade or more of use to a language whose inception was a year ago.