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 SAA23572; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:48:11 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA23755 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:48:09 +0100 (MET) Received: from c0mailgw11.prontomail.com ([216.163.180.10]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id fA8Hm8X01791 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:48:09 +0100 (MET) Received: by c0mailgw11.prontomail.com (NPlex 5.5.029) id 3BD60E52002A8B6D for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:41:18 -0800 Received: from 207.1.194.208 by SmtpServer for ; Thu, 08 Nov 2001 17:41:17 +0000 X-Sender: 29538.starband.net Message-ID: <004a01c1687d$6285c860$d0c201cf@XENO> Reply-To: "Eric Newhuis" From: "Eric Newhuis" To: "Caml" References: <8E31D6933A2FE64F8AE3CC1381EEDCE7181698@NT.kal.com> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Jihad Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 11:47:06 -0600 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 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Crusade? Inquisition? This is beginning to sound like a Monty Python movie. After reading the most excellent http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/12/advocacy.html#why%20i%20hate%20advocacy I'm scared to use these terms for fear of making unintentional enemies. BTW, I must retract my statement that Perl and C will not stand the test of time. After reading what I had written I could not remember what I was really trying to say there. Both Perl and C have clearly stood the test of time. (And how dare I attack my ex-girlfriends that way? Shame on me!) I think I was trying to argue that everyone will one day wake up and demand strong type checking so that they can spend less time debugging and more time building cool stuff that works. (You all knew that my test-of-time timeframe was several billion years, didn't you? ML will certainly prevail that long, right? nudge-nudge, wink-wink) ------------------- 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