From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id EAA22523; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 04:18:02 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA22740 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 04:18:01 +0100 (MET) Received: from c012.sfo.cp.net (c012-h016.c012.sfo.cp.net [209.228.12.164]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with SMTP id f2O3I0X16747 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 04:18:00 +0100 (MET) Received: (cpmta 28117 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2001 19:17:58 -0800 Date: 23 Mar 2001 19:17:58 -0800 Message-ID: <20010324031758.28116.cpmta@c012.sfo.cp.net> X-Sent: 24 Mar 2001 03:17:58 GMT Received: from [206.49.216.243] by mail.altavista.com with HTTP; 23 Mar 2001 19:17:58 PST Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 To: mattias.waldau@abc.se From: Arturo Borquez Cc: caml-list@inria.fr X-Mailer: Web Mail 3.9.0.19 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why People Aren't Using OCAML? (was Haskell) Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Fri, 23 March 2001, "Mattias Waldau" wrote: > > Something we should think about also for Ocaml > > http://www.jelovic.com/articles/why_people_arent_using_haskell.htm > > "What can be done about this? First and foremost the Haskell community must > make a standard distribution of Haskell that contains enough libraries to be > useful. That should include a regular expression library, an Internet > protocol library, a library for dealing with standard internet data and > encoding, a crypto library, a multimedia library and a GUI library. > > Next, the Haskell community must step out of its research circles and start > publicizing Haskell to the practicing programmers. Write articles in DDJ and > similar publications. Publish real-world programs written in Haskell." > > Most of this is also relevant for Ocaml, for example there are > crypto libraries and XML-support (for example PXP, which require wlex, which > is a hazzle). > Hi Mattias: As I am part of the 'real world programmers' from the begining I have being trying to put OCaml to work in trivial but 'real world apps' with great success. I must recognize that I am not so skilled in the language to participate in the theoric-forum, but yet I have coded some apps (server services) to my company to show the reliability of OCaml, and we are all agree that is a great language. But a great language to be successful and honour the great effort done by the authors must be promoted actively outside the research environment. I believe that lots of programmers not use OCaml because they are unaware about its existence. How to do it? The strategy and decision is to be made by INRIA and/or Caml Consortuim. Personaly I would like to see OCaml world wide spreaded playing in the 'great leages'. Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr