Most popular discussions in Erlang-questions

After a long thead about Misultin EOL in erlang-questions I wanted to check how active is it comparing to other threads in the mailing list. Honestly, I was expecting for it to be at least in top 5.. But I was wrong.

Here are the top 50 discussions as of of 2012 January 19 00:15 UTC:

  1 | 113 | 2008-11-15 - 2008-11-21 | [erlang-questions] Erlang 3000?
  2 | 108 | 2011-05-24 - 2011-05-26 | [erlang-questions] Why do we need modules at all?
  3 |  91 | 2008-03-10 - 2008-04-01 | [erlang-questions] erlang sucks
  4 |  85 | 2009-02-24 - 2009-03-05 | [erlang-questions] The Beauty of Erlang Syntax
  5 |  83 | 2009-03-17 - 2009-05-09 | [erlang-questions] Reassigning variables
  6 |  83 | 2007-05-21 - 2007-06-06 | [erlang-questions] some language changes
  7 |  81 | 2008-05-29 - 2008-06-10 | [erlang-questions] Twoorl: an open source Twitter clone
  8 |  77 | 2005-07-11 - 2005-08-01 | Meyer, OO and concurrency
  9 |  76 | 2006-02-13 - 2006-03-02 | Longstanding issues: structs & standalone Erlang
 10 |  75 | 2003-12-10 - 2004-01-14 | Small poll
 11 |  75 | 2006-10-30 - 2006-11-10 | [erlang-questions] Package Support/Use
 12 |  71 | 2008-02-12 - 2008-03-01 | [erlang-questions] Strings as Lists
 13 |  67 | 2003-01-27 - 2003-02-05 | A Joeish Erlang distribution (long)
 14 |  66 | 2008-06-24 - 2008-08-05 | [erlang-questions] Ideas for a new Erlang
 15 |  65 | 2004-01-12 - 2004-01-28 | ANNOUNCE - graphics package
 16 |  64 | 2006-08-03 - 2006-08-15 | Mac Intel
 17 |  64 | 2011-07-26 - 2011-08-01 | [erlang-questions] trouble with erlang or erlang is a ghetto
 18 |  63 | 2011-02-12 - 2011-03-11 | [erlang-questions] Two beautiful programs - or web programming
 19 |  60 | 2006-02-26 - 2006-03-13 | optimization of list comprehensions
 20 |  57 | 2011-06-12 - 2011-06-17 | [erlang-questions] A PropEr announcement
 21 |  53 | 2011-01-04 - 2011-01-17 | [erlang-questions] Erlang and the learning curve
 22 |  53 | 2011-07-21 - 2011-09-13 | [erlang-questions] Funargs: Ruby-like blocks for Erlang
 23 |  53 | 2003-04-01 - 2003-04-04 | FAQ terminology harmonisation
 24 |  51 | 2001-03-05 - 2001-03-12 | Erlang Development Environment
 25 |  51 | 2009-07-15 - 2009-07-23 | [erlang-questions] Re: Unicast 20k messages, $500-$1000 bounty
 26 |  51 | 2007-11-13 - 2007-11-16 | [erlang-questions] idea: service pack one
 27 |  51 | 2008-09-02 - 2008-09-05 | [erlang-questions] Parallel Shootout & a style question
 28 |  51 | 2003-10-22 - 2003-11-05 | Language change proposal
 29 |  50 | 2005-08-25 - 2005-09-09 | (Prolog + LISP + Erlang) with integration issues versus C++
 30 |  50 | 2011-05-18 - 2011-05-20 | [erlang-questions] DRY principle and the syntax inconsistency
 31 |  50 | 2010-10-13 - 2010-11-05 | [erlang-questions] Re: Shared/Hybrid Heap
 32 |  49 | 2010-11-13 - 2010-11-17 | [erlang-questions] Erlang shows its slow face!
 33 |  48 | 2007-11-26 - 2007-12-12 | [erlang-questions] benchmarks game harsh criticism
 34 |  48 | 2006-12-11 - 2006-12-22 | [erlang-questions] Why is Erlang what it is?
 35 |  47 | 2008-05-14 - 2008-06-04 | [erlang-questions] eep: multiple patterns
 36 |  47 | 2002-04-15 - 2002-04-22 | Erlang language issues
 37 |  47 | 2007-09-03 - 2007-09-10 | [erlang-questions] Intel Quad CPUs
 38 |  46 | 2011-10-17 - 2011-10-25 | [erlang-questions] Erlang newbie questions
 39 |  46 | 2006-06-26 - 2006-07-06 | Strings (was: Re: are Mnesia tables immutable?)
 40 |  46 | 2003-02-14 - 2003-02-19 | Musings on an Erlang GUI System.
 41 |  46 | 2003-09-18 - 2003-10-16 | Enhanced type guard syntax]
 42 |  46 | 2008-10-21 - 2008-11-05 | [erlang-questions] Why isn't erlang strongly typed?
 43 |  46 | 2003-10-13 - 2003-10-27 | Erlang is getting too big
 44 |  46 | 2009-11-08 - 2009-11-12 | [erlang-questions] Why Beam.smp crashes when memory is over?
 45 |  45 | 2004-03-21 - 2004-05-03 | user-defined operators
 46 |  45 | 2006-06-06 - 2006-06-13 | Language Bindings for Erlang Again (Opinion)
 47 |  44 | 2008-02-28 - 2008-03-11 | [erlang-questions] Use of makefiles
 48 |  44 | 2012-02-16 - 2012-02-18 | [erlang-questions] Misultin EOL
 49 |  44 | 2006-07-31 - 2006-08-09 | pcre, bifs, drivers and ports
 50 |  44 | 2008-09-12 - 2008-09-19 | [erlang-questions] My frustration with Erlang

Ah.. Only 48’th.. Guess I will have to wait for another millenium.

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