From: David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] syntax foo
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:10:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020206111042.A29781@opus.davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.40.0202061519570.22416-100000@bpr.best.vwh.net>; from bpr@bpr.best.vwh.net on Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 03:30:47PM +0000
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 03:30:47PM +0000, Brian Rogoff wrote:
> Caml syntax is *not* why people like Caml. I'd go as far as to say that
> lots of people adopt it in spite of its flawed (though not awful, like
> Perl) syntax. To paraphrase American political soundbites, "It's the
> sematics, stupid!". (PS: No, I'm not calling you stupid.)
For myself, the Ocaml syntax is actually what won me over from SML.
Only later did I discover much of the other benefits of Ocaml.
Dave Brown
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-05 20:48 james woodyatt
2002-02-05 21:21 ` Jérôme Marant
2002-02-06 15:30 ` Brian Rogoff
2002-02-06 18:25 ` Markus Mottl
2002-02-06 19:58 ` Lauri Alanko
2002-02-06 20:41 ` Markus Mottl
2002-02-06 20:47 ` Alexander V. Voinov
2002-02-07 1:43 ` Brian Rogoff
2002-02-06 19:08 ` Alexander V. Voinov
2002-02-06 19:10 ` David Brown [this message]
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