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 HAA28246; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 07:38:00 +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 HAA28837 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 07:37:59 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from calmail-cl.berkeley.edu (mailfarm.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.61.106]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3F5cxjq011387 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 07:39:00 +0200 Received: from [64.162.212.212] (HELO tallman.kefka.frap.net) by calmail-cl.berkeley.edu (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with SMTP id 16926621; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 22:37:56 -0700 Received: by tallman.kefka.frap.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 14 Apr 2004 22:37:05 -0700 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 22:37:05 -0700 From: Kenneth Knowles To: skaller Cc: "Brandon J. Van Every" , caml-list Subject: Re: [Caml-list] suggestion: do not link to www.ocaml.org Message-ID: <20040415053705.GA24813@tallman.kefka.frap.net> References: <20040414053414.GA25712@tallman.kefka.frap.net> <1081941163.20677.652.camel@pelican> <20040414160141.GB23982@tallman.kefka.frap.net> <1081989141.20677.812.camel@pelican> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1081989141.20677.812.camel@pelican> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Miltered: at nez-perce by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.16; knowles:99 caml-list:01 2004:99 2004:99 knowles:99 model:01 type-safety:01 addiction:99 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 shop:98 shop:98 suited:02 wrote:03 wrote:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 363 On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 10:32:22AM +1000, skaller wrote: > On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 02:01, Kenneth Knowles wrote: > > > In fact, I took a look at Felix pretty soon after starting up with OCaml. > > > If I were in a C++ shop rather than a web shop I'd certainly be > > lobbying for it. > > Oh? The cooperative multi-tasking model is particularly > well suited to web services. I mostly mean that we are an MS-oriented, generally conservative shop where the most probably *social* move is to get them to use a nicer .Net language. Goal: extreme type-safety, powerful data structures Problem: microsoft addiction and programming conservativism. Performance is not an issue for us, servers are cheapers than programmers. 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