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 XAA09161; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 23:03:45 +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 XAA09163 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 23:03:44 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (adsl-64-162-212-212.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.162.212.212]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id i0JM3hv12683 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 23:03:43 +0100 (MET) Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1F1896A4B50; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:59:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:59:12 -0800 From: Kenneth Knowles To: Richard Jones Cc: Ocaml Mailing List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ANNOUNCE: mod_caml 1.0.6 - includes security patch Message-ID: <20040119215912.GA26643@tallman.kefka.frap.net> References: <20040116093454.GA23909@redhat.com> <20040119111353.A31726@beaune.inria.fr> <20040119113637.GA30306@redhat.com> <20040119154333.A7394@beaune.inria.fr> <20040119161011.GA10845@redhat.com> <20040119174640.GA28829@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> <20040119180517.GA16278@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040119180517.GA16278@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; knowles:99 caml-list:01 orthogonal:01 camlp:01 caml:01 garbage:01 patch:02 syntax:02 type:07 syntactic:07 mod:07 programming:07 U8:89 language:10 removing:10 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > Give me the > choice of shooting myself in the foot if I want to. Type systems, orthogonal syntax, garbage collection... Removing this choice is much of what programming language design is about. I fully agree that having a syntactic integration of regular expressions is a good idea (via camlp4 of course), but if you want to be able to shoot yourself in the foot I strongly recommend C++ :-) -Kenn ------------------- 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