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 UAA13334; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:10:52 +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 UAA09669 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:10:50 +0100 (MET) Received: from opus.davidb.org (24-165-4-233.san.rr.com [24.165.4.233]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g16JAnn17171 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:10:49 +0100 (MET) Received: from davidb by opus.davidb.org with local (Exim 3.31 #1 (Debian)) id 16YXSs-0007kl-00 for ; Wed, 06 Feb 2002 11:10:42 -0800 Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:10:42 -0800 From: David Brown To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] syntax foo Message-ID: <20020206111042.A29781@opus.davidb.org> References: <20020205212131.GA1707@marant.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: ; from bpr@bpr.best.vwh.net on Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 03:30:47PM +0000 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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 ------------------- 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