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 concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA325BBB7 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:49:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6QDnJHp008014 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:49:19 +0200 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 PAA01329 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:49:18 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.203]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6QDnFaK007990 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:49:17 +0200 Received: from rosella (ppp232-211.lns3.syd7.internode.on.net [59.167.232.211]) by smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k6QDn1Pw095359; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:19:02 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from skaller@users.sourceforge.net) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: OCaml & Microsoft? From: skaller To: Till Varoquaux Cc: Basile STARYNKEVITCH , caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <9d3ec8300607260212w7b4ee572xdbe07153fba378f3@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060726081836.GA17712@ours.starynkevitch.net> <9d3ec8300607260212w7b4ee572xdbe07153fba378f3@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:49:01 +1000 Message-Id: <1153921741.13946.28.camel@rosella.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 44C772DF.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 44C772DB.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 inference:01 polymorphism:01 2006:98 wrote:01 sourceforge:01 caml-list:01 caml:02 static:03 cambridge:04 i'd:05 mainstream:06 uses:06 probably:06 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 On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 11:12 +0200, Till Varoquaux wrote: > Microsoft research (at least the cambridge UK branch) uses ocaml for > some of its projects like terminator (static program analysis). > Also, I'm guessing we will see some of the nice ocaml feature > trickling in C# (or another mainstream caml language) one of these > days (that's probably what F# is for). Some of them already have.. type inference for example, and a much better approach to polymorphism than Java .. not that I'd use C# for anything Ocaml could do :) -- John Skaller Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net