From: "Graham Guttocks" <graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz>
To: Martin Weber <Ephaeton@gmx.net>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:42:49 +1300 (NZDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030313004249.65353.qmail@web10303.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030312185904.GB372@phaeton.entropie.net>
Martin Weber <Ephaeton@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Most programmers are idiots, and idiots won't be able to appreciate
> the good things - they take the language which fits their
> intellectual base.
This may be a bit harsh, but I understand your sentiment. How about
the group in between the idiots and the language specialists? i.e,
folks who _would_ appreciate OCaml if they were exposed to it and had
some better teaching tools available?
> Bluntly, why should Ocaml be known more ?
Notoriety leads to a greater userbase which has many trickle-down
effects such as external suggestions and contributions, conferences,
additional funding, etc. all of which improve the language and insure
its future. The benefits of opensource are all about getting the code
into more hands. You lose all of these if OCaml remains obscure and
shrouded in mystery.
Look, I'm not talking about turning OCaml into a commercially driven
behemoth like Java folks. I'd just like to see OCaml get the exposure,
support, credit, etc. I think it deserves.
=====
Regards,
Graham
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2003-03-06 23:27 Graham Guttocks
2003-03-10 20:43 ` Paul Steckler
2003-03-10 23:48 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2003-03-11 0:18 ` Brian Hurt
2003-03-17 23:49 ` Graham Guttocks
2003-03-11 1:43 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2003-03-11 10:23 ` Pierre Weis
2003-03-11 14:27 ` Guillaume Marceau
2003-03-11 16:16 ` David Brown
2003-03-11 16:47 ` [Caml-list] about -rectypes Christophe Raffalli
2003-03-12 2:32 ` [Caml-list] OCaml popularity Nicolas Cannasse
2003-03-12 3:55 ` Cross-platform GUI (was Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity) mgushee
2003-03-12 10:51 ` [Caml-list] OCaml popularity Alex Romadinoff
2003-03-12 18:24 ` Max Kirillov
2003-03-11 19:02 ` Graham Guttocks
2003-03-12 17:12 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2003-03-12 18:08 ` Alwyn Goodloe
2003-03-12 22:34 ` Michael Schuerig
2003-03-12 23:13 ` Martin Weber
2003-03-12 23:35 ` Michael Schuerig
2003-03-13 8:02 ` Alessandro Baretta
2003-03-13 10:23 ` Michael Schuerig
2003-03-12 23:35 ` Brian Hurt
2003-03-12 23:18 ` Daniel Bünzli
2003-03-12 23:47 ` Brian Hurt
2003-03-13 2:15 ` William Lovas
2003-03-13 3:44 ` Graham Guttocks
2003-03-13 9:31 ` Richard W.M. Jones
[not found] ` <20030313095232.GC347@first.in-berlin.de>
2003-03-13 20:50 ` William Lovas
2003-03-13 21:17 ` Oliver Bandel
2003-03-13 22:01 ` Brian Hurt
2003-03-13 22:17 ` Oliver Bandel
2003-03-14 6:33 ` Michal Moskal
2003-03-14 11:50 ` Markus Mottl
2003-03-14 15:38 ` Oliver Bandel
2003-03-14 10:13 ` MikhailFedotov
2003-03-14 10:30 ` Johann Spies
2003-03-13 8:09 ` Pierre Weis
2003-03-15 1:43 ` Tushar Samant
2003-03-15 8:19 ` Andreas Eder
2003-03-11 16:26 ` Fred Yankowski
2003-03-11 19:47 ` [Caml-list] OCaml popularity (long!) mgushee
2003-03-12 11:23 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2003-03-30 5:59 ` Belated thanks (was Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity) Matt Gushee
2003-03-31 15:27 ` [Caml-list] Re: Belated thanks cashin
2003-04-01 8:22 ` Belated thanks (was Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity) Johann Spies
2003-03-12 20:41 ` [Caml-list] OCaml popularity (long!) Max Kirillov
2003-03-13 2:36 ` Haskell-like syntax (was: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity (long!)) Oleg
2003-03-13 18:33 ` [Caml-list] Re: Haskell-like syntax Max Kirillov
2003-03-14 19:30 ` Max Kirillov
2003-03-14 19:47 ` Max Kirillov
2003-03-14 20:01 ` Seth Kurtzberg
2003-03-14 20:34 ` brogoff
2003-03-14 21:17 ` Sebastien Carlier
2003-03-14 21:51 ` brogoff
2003-03-15 2:27 ` Max Kirillov
2003-03-15 10:58 ` Markus Mottl
2003-03-15 15:52 ` [Caml-list] globally valid symbols (was: Haskell-like syntax) Max Kirillov
2003-03-15 20:16 ` [Caml-list] Re: Haskell-like syntax David Brown
2003-03-16 5:28 ` Module recursion (Was Re: [Caml-list] Re: Haskell-like syntax) brogoff
2003-03-16 11:10 ` Markus Mottl
2003-03-16 18:02 ` brogoff
2003-03-16 18:34 ` Markus Mottl
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303152112560.27230-100000@grace.speakeasy.n et>
2003-03-16 5:38 ` Chris Hecker
2003-03-16 18:34 ` brogoff
2003-03-17 2:20 ` Jacques Garrigue
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303161020480.11736-100000@grace.speakeasy.n et>
2003-03-17 5:08 ` Chris Hecker
2003-03-17 17:06 ` brogoff
2003-03-17 19:01 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303170836240.29039-100000@grace.speakeasy.n et>
2003-03-17 19:33 ` Chris Hecker
2003-03-17 20:28 ` brogoff
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303171145500.29039-100000@grace.speakeasy.n et>
2003-03-17 21:09 ` Chris Hecker
2003-03-19 2:34 ` [Caml-list] ocamlopt speed (was Re: Module recursion) Chris Hecker
2003-03-19 10:03 ` Michal Moskal
2003-03-19 10:38 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2003-03-19 20:36 ` Chris Hecker
2003-03-17 1:46 ` [Caml-list] Re: Haskell-like syntax Nicolas Cannasse
2003-03-14 22:50 ` Oleg
2003-03-20 15:01 ` Andreas Rossberg
2003-03-12 20:46 ` [Caml-list] Monads was OCaml popularity Christophe Raffalli
2003-03-13 0:03 ` [Caml-list] monads for dummies james woodyatt
2003-03-13 4:32 ` Christopher Quinn
2003-03-13 11:53 ` Christian Lindig
2003-03-12 18:59 ` [Caml-list] OCaml popularity Martin Weber
2003-03-12 20:24 ` Xavier Leroy
2003-03-13 8:57 ` [Caml-list] how to interface with integer Bigarrays using camlidl francois bereux
2003-03-13 9:36 ` Xavier Leroy
2003-03-13 0:42 ` Graham Guttocks [this message]
2003-03-12 17:40 [Caml-list] OCaml popularity isaac gouy
2003-03-12 23:53 [oliver: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity] Oliver Bandel
2003-03-13 1:34 ` [Caml-list] OCaml popularity Michael Schuerig
2003-03-13 7:09 Daniel M. Albro
2003-03-13 16:48 ` Neel Krishnaswami
2003-03-13 21:29 ` Karl Zilles
2003-03-13 21:36 ` Daniel M. Albro
2003-03-13 21:42 ` Daniel M. Albro
[not found] ` <15985.1204.814698.939943@h00045a4799d6.ne.client2.attbi.com>
2003-03-14 5:49 ` Daniel M. Albro
2003-03-14 9:05 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2003-03-14 9:13 ` Daniel M. Albro
2003-03-13 21:53 ` Brian Hurt
2003-03-13 14:39 [oliver: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity] Oliver Bandel
2003-03-13 16:35 ` [Caml-list] OCaml popularity Michael Schuerig
2003-03-14 22:14 Daniel M. Albro
2003-03-15 16:27 Oliver Bandel
2003-03-15 17:55 ` Sergey Goldgaber
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