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 XAA01482; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:34:38 +0100 (MET) 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 XAA01475 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:34:37 +0100 (MET) Received: from post.webmailer.de (natsmtp00.webmailer.de [192.67.198.74]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h2CMYaX08626 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:34:36 +0100 (MET) Received: from pD952EC32.dip.t-dialin.net (pD952EC32.dip.t-dialin.net [217.82.236.50]) by post.webmailer.de (8.12.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id h2CMYZSX028229 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:34:35 +0100 (MET) From: Michael Schuerig Organization: - To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:34:34 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303122334.34982.schuerig@acm.org> X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 alwyn:01 goodloe:01 prover:01 gui:01 screens:99 ocaml:01 theorem:02 wrote:03 08,:03 data:03 academia:04 enterprise:94 mostly:06 java:07 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wednesday 12 March 2003 19:08, Alwyn Goodloe wrote: > I agree. This is really the difference between what most people do > in industry and what we do in academia. People out there just don't > care about how well you can build an automated theorem prover if they > can't draw their GUI screens and access their Oracle data bases. Is software development in industry only about GUI screens, web pages and database access? Well, from my own experience, I fear the answer is mostly yes. That being as it is, would things in industry be that much better if OCaml had everything it takes for writing enterprise applications? Could OCaml in this area bring such a big improvement over, say, Java and J2EE? Or are there other -- niche? -- areas where the advantages OCaml provides are far more important? Michael -- Michael Schuerig Failures to use one's frontal lobes mailto:schuerig@acm.org can result in the loss of them. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --William H. Calvin ------------------- 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