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 mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB1DBC37 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 10:47:44 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtMBADHCoUrCpx6wmWdsb2JhbACbOwEBAQEBCAsKBxO8fYQXBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,336,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="33765174" Received: from smtpmin.univ-orleans.fr (HELO min.univ-orleans.fr) ([194.167.30.176]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 05 Sep 2009 10:47:43 +0200 Received: from smtps.univ-orleans.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by min.univ-orleans.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC88312B64C; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 10:47:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.11.18] (unknown [212.219.59.79]) by smtps.univ-orleans.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E86236E60; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 10:47:43 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why don't use batteries From: David Rajchenbach-Teller To: Julien Signoles Cc: caml list In-Reply-To: <4AA10CF0.7070403@cea.fr> References: <4AA10CF0.7070403@cea.fr> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:33:34 +0100 Message-Id: <1252136014.8592.35.camel@Blefuscu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; ens-lyon:01 0200,:01 signoles:01 high-level:01 compiler:01 ocaml:01 cheers:01 2009:98 wrote:01 homogeneous:01 homogeneous:01 caml-list:01 failing:02 fri:05 somewhere:06 On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 14:49 +0200, Julien Signoles wrote: > 8c) Not homogeneous enough. I agree on most of your points. However, we are trying very hard to be homogeneous. So if you feel that we're not homogeneous enough, it means that we're failing somewhere. Do you have details? > 8d) Not clear enough for me what is the targeted audience: seem to be > first for students, now for any developers but still with a dedicated > focus for students (hum, maybe not after all?). Ok, that's a good point. The main focus is having a set of high-level libraries. This can benefit both students and most developers (probably not developers who intend to squeeze the last bit of performance from the compiler, though). Now, let's be clear: the primary audience is *developers*, but this does not mean only OCaml hackers. This also means people from the Java/C# world, for instance. I hope this lifts part of the confusion. Cheers, David