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 BAA14696; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 01:03:43 +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 BAA14643 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 01:03:41 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from web41212.mail.yahoo.com (web41212.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.45]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i37N4Xjq006941 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 01:04:34 +0200 Message-ID: <20040407230339.76481.qmail@web41212.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.242.203.204] by web41212.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 07 Apr 2004 16:03:39 PDT Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 16:03:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Vasili Galchin Subject: Re: OCaml's Cathedral & Bazaar (was Re: [Caml-list] Completeness of "Unix" run-time library) To: skaller@users.sourceforge.net Cc: Dustin Sallings , Kenneth Knowles , caml-list In-Reply-To: <1081236270.19232.41.camel@pelican> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Miltered: at nez-perce by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml's:01 caml-list:01 run-time:01 declarative:01 terrible:01 sourceforge:01 2004:99 model:01 model:01 9660:01 glebe:01 $15:99 giveaway:99 promotions:99 giveaway:99 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 117 John, You misunderstood my point. I was saying that if OCaml and other nice declarative languages like it don't stop being science projects then all we in industry have for alternatives are terrible languages like C++! I wasn't in anyway suggesting a process that has been adopted for C++. Instead I was merely suggesting (prodding) for everybody to get off the dime and see code somehow make it through a gatekeeper and into the mainstream. Regards, Vasili --- skaller wrote: > On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 14:20, Vasili Galchin wrote: > > > Bottom line: there are a lot of > > valuable contributions to OCaml that should be > code > > reviewed and if good checked-in! Alternative: C++, > > i.e. sh*t! > > C++ has a formal ISO review process plus a community > based development site (Boost), and other media (eg > USENET). > > The code is free for any use, the specifications are > not > but they're cheap (thanks mainly to the USA national > > standards body). > > Caml has a different development model, and one can > imagine a reluctance to move it closer to the C++ > model for fear the result might be similar .. > > > -- > John Skaller, mailto:skaller@users.sf.net > voice: 061-2-9660-0850, > snail: PO BOX 401 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia > Checkout the Felix programming language > http://felix.sf.net > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ ------------------- 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