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 NAA22858; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:43:54 +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 NAA22863 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:43:53 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from web11204.mail.yahoo.com (web11204.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.131.186]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g6CBhqj25813 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:43:52 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <20020712114351.55059.qmail@web11204.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [195.224.189.79] by web11204.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 04:43:51 PDT Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 04:43:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Noel Welsh Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: productivity improvement To: Markus Mottl , Oleg Cc: OCaml In-Reply-To: <20020712112304.GC684@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk --- Markus Mottl wrote: > I'd get into very serious troubles when my > main programmer gets a brick on his head. Markus, you write as a brick to the head is a foregone conclusion. Is this how functional programmers are treated in Austria? ;-) Seriously, Markus is right: many business decisions are based on fear. This is sad and leads to the kind of lossage that Paul Graham has been writing about in his recent essays. It's up to small companies to gain the advantages of innovative technology. Noel __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners