From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA16550; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:04:58 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA16360 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:04:58 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from cmailg5.svr.pol.co.uk (cmailg5.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.195.175]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f5FF4qX03960 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:04:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from modem-14.tantalum.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.56.14] helo=baby) by cmailg5.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 15Av9X-0001Fg-00 for caml-list@inria.fr; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 16:04:51 +0100 Message-ID: <001501c0f5ad$cfaad2c0$a00bfea9@baby> From: "Jonathan Coupe" To: References: <3B2A0D7B.12E32F11@online.no> <20010615165431.A15839@pauillac.inria.fr> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml complexity Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 16:14:01 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > Tore Lund writes: > > > The one thing that definitely needs fixing if OCaml is ever to catch on > > is the *name*. For my own part it took some time before my brain even > > registered that there was such a language, and I am sure this was due to > > the unwieldy abbreviation "OCaml" - it looks like a typo or line noise > > the first time you see it. > > Earlier, when asked `which language do you use for it?' I used to > > answer `Objective See Ay Em Ell', but people often thought I meant > > `Objective C', then :-) Now I say `Objective Camel'. It means a bit > > more to them than just `Oh-Camel'. Unfortunately, they get the > > impression that it's some obscure object oriented language like > > Smalltalk now, so I add `a functional language'. > The biggest source of confusion I've noticed is with Occam - a pascaloid (?) language for parallel processing. - Jonathan ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr