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 LAA32436; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:33:08 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA32559 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:33:07 +0100 (MET) Received: from fichte.ai.univie.ac.at (fichte.ai.univie.ac.at [131.130.174.156]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g15AX6H09328 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:33:06 +0100 (MET) Received: from chopin.ai.univie.ac.at (root@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at [131.130.174.170]) by fichte.ai.univie.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id LAA11228; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:33:04 +0100 Received: (from markus@localhost) by chopin.ai.univie.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id LAA25309; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:33:04 +0100 Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:33:04 +0100 From: Markus Mottl To: Brian Rogoff Cc: Mattias Waldau , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] syntax change (was: camlp4o problem) Message-ID: <20020205103304.GA25187@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at> Mail-Followup-To: Brian Rogoff , Mattias Waldau , caml-list@inria.fr References: <20020204201140.GA1705@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i Organization: Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Tue, 05 Feb 2002, Brian Rogoff wrote: > If you want Revised to become popular, start writing all of your code > in Revised. Having seriously considered revised syntax as alternative, the only but finally decisive argument against switching was that (nearly) nobody else was using it. If you want to make your code available to other people, you'll have to take social aspects of programming into consideration, too. Chicken-and-egg problems can usually only be solved by some authoritative instance. If the OCaml-team decides otherwise, I'll surely not hang myself on the next tree. OCaml will still be a great language. It might just have been an even greater one... Regards, Markus Mottl -- Markus Mottl markus@oefai.at Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.oefai.at/~markus ------------------- 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