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From: Jon Harrop <jonathandeanharrop@googlemail.com>
To: "'Yoann Padioleau'" <padator@wanadoo.fr>,
	"'Benedikt Meurer'" <benedikt.meurer@googlemail.com>
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Subject: RE: [Caml-list] [Was: OCamlJit 2.0]
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:08:00 -0000
Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy
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X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 cheers:01 2.0:98 frog:98 caml-list:01 codebase:96 consequence:04 porting:06 porting:06 ported:07 likely:08 thousands:91 example:10 companies:87 companies:87 

> Do we have example of big companies porting their whole codebase to
> another language ?

Yes, of course. Companies modernise all the time. We have a client who just
started porting 1MLOC of C++ to F#. Flying Frog have ported hundreds of
thousands of lines of OCaml to F#. It happens all the time but it is even
more likely to happen as a consequence of multicore.

Cheers,
Jon.