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 CAA06498; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 02:32:21 +0200 (MET DST) 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 CAA06403 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 02:32:20 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from www.invert.com (invert.com [209.164.21.15]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f580WJ905194 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 02:32:19 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from miles@localhost) by www.invert.com (8.10.1/8.10.1AA) id f580WHu15344; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 17:32:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from miles) Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 17:32:17 -0700 From: Miles Egan To: William Chesters Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml complexity Message-ID: <20010607173217.B15205@caddr.com> References: <20010606095041.A93623@caddr.com> <15134.34352.642598.605606@beertje.william.bogus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15134.34352.642598.605606@beertje.william.bogus>; from williamc@paneris.org on Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 09:36:16PM +0200 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 09:36:16PM +0200, William Chesters wrote: > Miles Egan writes: > Objectively, C++ is much harder to learn than ocaml and you have to be > _brilliant_ to make the most of it without getting into trouble. The > point surely is that people are more familiar, or at least feel > embarrassed about being unfamiliar, with the _jargon_ of C++ as > against that of ocaml. C++ is certainly a pathological worst case, and I can't really think of another language as baroque and confusing (certainly not Ocaml). I suppose the biggest hurdles for programmers new to Ocaml are type theory and functional thinking. Software development is an essentially complicated task these days, so good tools will probably necessarily be somewhat complex too. I certainly intend to keep using and advocating Ocaml. I'm mainly interested in finding out what other working programmers are doing to sell it to their colleagues. -- miles ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr