From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
To: "Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@indiegamedesign.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] suggestion: do not link to www.ocaml.org
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:12:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040414011219.GB919@complete.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OOEALCJCKEBJBIJHCNJDAEOMHAAB.vanevery@indiegamedesign.com>
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 04:25:45PM -0700, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> reasons. A number of other languages have the features, and some have
> much better libraries, packages, and industrial provenness. What OCaml
> apparently has is performance.
That's interesting but not the reason that I was attracted to it.
> The only thing I intensely dislike about the www.ocaml.org website is
> the slogan, "The programming tool of choice for discriminating hackers."
> This suggests that OCaml is a toy, used by exploratory geeks who don't
> know the value of a dollar. I prefer INRIA's utter blandness to
> ocaml.org's championing of the hacker geek ethic.
No, it suggests that OCaml is a real language that can be used to solve
real problems quickly, that it is not a "toy" language like BASIC, and
that it has some power wrt system-level programming. Most of this is
true, though it is rather weak on the system-level programming side.
Both sites are functional. The Humps at ocaml.org are quite valuable.
INRIA's page loads fast and I find what I want fast. I fail to see any
problem there.
> Don't get me started on the Python Software Foundation's utter inability
> to market anything.
Why should they? They're not a .com. Python is doing quite well, I'd
say.
-- John
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-13 22:27 Henri DF
2004-04-13 22:43 ` [Caml-list] " Alan Post
2004-04-13 23:01 ` Henri DF
2004-04-13 23:29 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-04-13 22:58 ` [Caml-list] " Zed A. Shaw
2004-04-13 23:25 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-04-14 1:12 ` John Goerzen [this message]
2004-04-14 4:32 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-04-14 15:14 ` John Goerzen
2004-04-14 16:28 ` Matt Gushee
2004-04-14 18:16 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-04-14 18:36 ` John Goerzen
2004-04-14 5:34 ` Kenneth Knowles
2004-04-14 6:26 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-04-14 6:32 ` Kenneth Knowles
[not found] ` <20040414070841.GA6062@roke.freak>
2004-04-14 7:32 ` Kenneth Knowles
2004-04-14 11:12 ` skaller
2004-04-14 16:01 ` Kenneth Knowles
2004-04-15 0:32 ` skaller
2004-04-15 5:37 ` Kenneth Knowles
2004-04-13 23:38 ` Karl Zilles
2004-04-13 23:00 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-04-14 15:17 ` Richard Jones
2004-04-14 19:05 ` Xavier Leroy
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