From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Google trends
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:00:24 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1193918424.6008.2.camel@rosella.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071101094629.GA28190@furbychan.cocan.org>
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 09:46 +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:02:39AM +0000, Jon Harrop wrote:
> > The number of people searching for OCaml on Google has sky-rocketed since
> > Microsoft's announcement that they are productizing F#:
> >
> > http://www.google.com/trends?q=f%23%2Cocaml&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
> >
> > I think this is very good news for the OCaml language as it will now have a
> > mainstream cousin to cover Windows while OCaml covers Linux and Mac OS X.
> > Hooray! :-)
>
> This is hardly a cause to cheer. The two languages aren't compatible
> in any way which is relevant to the real world, and the libraries are
> completely different. Microsoft could have contributed valuable
> changes back to OCaml, but instead decided to produce their own
> incompatible clone.
No they couldn't. The Cathedral would never let them.
--
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-01 12:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-01 1:02 Jon Harrop
2007-11-01 2:20 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-11-01 8:37 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-01 9:31 ` Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)
2007-11-01 10:55 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-01 9:46 ` Richard Jones
2007-11-01 12:00 ` skaller [this message]
2007-11-01 12:46 ` Richard Jones
2007-11-01 15:45 ` skaller
2007-11-01 16:31 ` Jon Harrop
2007-11-01 18:12 ` Richard Jones
2007-11-01 19:47 ` Peng Zang
2007-11-02 3:11 ` Jon Harrop
2007-11-02 13:48 ` Lars Nilsson
2007-11-02 15:54 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-01 13:01 ` Brian Hurt
2007-11-01 16:10 ` skaller
2007-11-01 18:05 ` Richard Jones
2007-11-02 3:01 ` skaller
2007-11-02 15:50 ` Jon Harrop
2007-11-02 16:26 ` Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)
2007-11-02 16:07 ` Language trends / Caml popularity (Re: [Caml-list] Google trends) Oliver Bandel
2007-11-01 21:00 ` [Caml-list] Google trends Dario Teixeira
2007-11-03 0:02 ` Florian Weimer
2007-11-02 22:45 ` Florian Weimer
2007-11-03 1:32 ` Jon Harrop
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