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 OAA23756; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:10:57 +0200 (MET DST) 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 OAA23737 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:10:56 +0200 (MET DST) 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 g6CCAtf23900 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:10:56 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from markus@localhost) by fichte.ai.univie.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id OAA02045; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:10:50 +0200 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:10:50 +0200 From: Markus Mottl To: Noel Welsh Cc: Oleg , OCaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: productivity improvement Message-ID: <20020712121050.GE684@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> Mail-Followup-To: Noel Welsh , Oleg , OCaml References: <20020712112304.GC684@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> <20020712114351.55059.qmail@web11204.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020712114351.55059.qmail@web11204.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Noel Welsh wrote: > --- 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? ;-) Well, you never know how laid off project managers retaliate here ;-) > 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. It is possible to disperse risk when you happen to live in a country with a well-developed market for venture capital. This, however, is not the case here. At least in this respect you can be lucky to live in the UK. OTOH, food and weather is so much better over here :-) Regards, Markus -- Markus Mottl markus@oefai.at Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.oefai.at/~markus ------------------- 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