From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 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 52D0ABC0A for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:04:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.140]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l3J04VbM017322 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:04:33 +0200 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.14,424,1170595800"; d="scan'208";a="116639734" Received: from ppp8-148.lns1.syd7.internode.on.net (HELO [192.168.1.201]) ([59.167.8.148]) by ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 19 Apr 2007 09:34:28 +0930 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The F#.NET Journal From: skaller To: Brian Hurt Cc: Richard Jones , Caml List In-Reply-To: References: <200704172106.38499.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <20070418085354.GA9605@furbychan.cocan.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:04:25 +1000 Message-Id: <1176941065.5918.39.camel@rosella.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4626B210.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 inria's:01 bug:01 cathedral:98 sourceforge:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 short:01 short:01 viewpoint:03 brian:04 draws:06 wed:06 programmer:06 On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 18:57 -0400, Brian Hurt wrote: > Overall, I see F# as a good thing for Ocaml. OK, it draws some of it's > support from the Ocaml community (John Harrop here being an obvious > example)- thus dilluting the pool of energy from Ocaml, at least in the > short term. That's a product of INRIA's Cathedral. There's a door on the Church where I can pin bug reports. > But any F# programmer can pick up Ocaml in short order, and > vice versa (not unlike the C#/Java communities). >>From a software engineering viewpoint all we have is a superficial resemblance. -- John Skaller Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net