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 AAA32291; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 00:18:18 +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 AAA32272 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 00:18:17 +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 f58MIGL26928 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 00:18:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from miles@localhost) by www.invert.com (8.10.1/8.10.1AA) id f58MI3R29824; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:18:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from miles) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:18:03 -0700 From: Miles Egan To: Jonathan Coupe Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml complexity Message-ID: <20010608151802.A29760@caddr.com> References: <20010607015821.B11344@jean> <002c01c0ef7f$e154f3e0$5d26883e@baby> <20010608024102.A13672@jean> <003601c0f016$7ac12940$a00bfea9@baby> <4.3.2.7.2.20010608131019.03c8c840@shell16.ba.best.com> <20010608133117.A28472@caddr.com> <001c01c0f068$ce193f40$a00bfea9@baby> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001c01c0f068$ce193f40$a00bfea9@baby>; from jonathan@meanwhile.freeserve.co.uk on Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 11:17:26PM +0100 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 11:17:26PM +0100, Jonathan Coupe wrote: > Is Ocaml's acceptability at Pixar independent of its use in the larger > marketplace? If so, I'm surprised. (I believed that the opposite was the > case for Lisp, from your comments on cll.) The more people who use a > language, the more useful it is through the availability of tools, libraries > and trained programmers. I'm not denying any of that. It would be easier to push Ocaml around here if it had the kind of visibility that Python or Perl enjoys. I don't feel like there's much I can personally do to advance Ocaml globally at the moment, though, so I'm more immediately interested in what I can do locally. I've been wondering if I was the only one that reads cll and caml-list. ;) > There's also the larger question of our professional responsibility to > society. Software quality is a key (though usual buried) problem for the > modern world. Tools that can improve it are good. Ocaml has significant > potential to do that. I'd hate to see it under used to the extent that CLOS > and Smalltalk are. So would I. I'm focusing on making my own little dent at the moment. A little buzzword compliance doesn't hurt, of course, which is why I was wondering if anyone is working on SOAP libs. -- 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