From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF0B6BC40 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:08:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j78H8vak016668 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:08:57 +0200 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 TAA16755 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:08:56 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from postfix4-2.free.fr (postfix4-2.free.fr [213.228.0.176]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j78H8uuj016665 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:08:56 +0200 Received: from warp (che33-2-82-225-176-25.fbx.proxad.net [82.225.176.25]) by postfix4-2.free.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E2BA323435; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:08:55 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <013d01c59c3c$a93375e0$0100a8c0@warp> From: "Nicolas Cannasse" To: "Jon Harrop" , References: <200508011826.52882.jon@ffconsultancy.com> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml for Industry Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:14:39 +0200 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 6.00.2800.1506 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 42F791A9.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 42F791A8.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; cannasse:01 warplayer:01 caml-list:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 compilers:01 ...:98 structures:01 data:02 nicolas:02 nicolas:02 sell:96 algorithms:03 manipulate:04 800:95 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 > > Whilst considering future projects, it occurred to me that a management report > along the lines of "OCaml for Industry" might be a viable product. Such a > book could explain the utility of OCaml in overall terms (for managers and > investors) as well as detailing the benefits, costs and various ways of > adopting OCaml in industrial projects. > > I'd like to hear from anyone who thinks their company might buy such a > management report (for around 800UKP) and anyone who can provide information > about case studies of OCaml having been used in industry. > That's bad news that nobody answered to this interesting topic within one week. As for buying a report, it might be nice to freely provide some results and trends and then sell the "full report" if it's what you want to do. My company is using OCaml is a lot of our projects, mainly for development tools (compilers, level generators, resources builders... ). It's perfectly suitable in the case where you need to manipulate a lot of data structures and apply algorithms to them. Nicolas