From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55437BC32 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 01:34:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j2G0YX6w024008 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 01:34:34 +0100 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA29380 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 01:34:33 +0100 (MET) Received: from first.in-berlin.de (dialin-145-254-052-221.arcor-ip.net [145.254.52.221]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j2G0YWVW024005 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 01:34:32 +0100 Received: by first.in-berlin.de (Postfix, from userid 501) id 3CE31BBD11; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 01:34:30 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 01:34:29 +0100 From: Oliver Bandel To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml troll on Slashdot Message-ID: <20050316003429.GE347@first.in-berlin.de> References: <20050315092502.GA19351@furbychan.cocan.org> <1093.80.8.1.44.1110882854.squirrel@mail.irisa.fr> <20050315.091248.68545374.eijiro_sumii@anet.ne.jp> <20050315.162501.15509039.debian00@tiscali.be> <8008871f05031510552ee084ab@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <8008871f05031510552ee084ab@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 42377F1A.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 42377F18.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; oliver:01 bandel:01 oliver:01 in-berlin:01 caml-list:01 ocaml:01 christophe:01 troestler:01 ocaml:01 unoptimized:01 posts:01 ...:98 ...:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:55:07PM -0500, Christopher A. Watford wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:25:01 +0100 (CET), Christophe TROESTLER > wrote: > > I agree with that. The ./ post is a typical > > I-don't-know-what-I-am-talking-about-so-I-say-it-loud ! If he made a > > point I believe it is that it's easier to hit the "send" key than to > > try to be a good programmer... > > > > > > > > My 2¢, > > ChriS > > You're right, it looked something like this to me: > > Hi! I'm new to OCaml, and my first attempt and making something like I > would in C++ failed miserably. I didn't used standard library > functions, because I didn't know they existed. I also went ahead and > compiled things in a rediculously unoptimized fashion. Finally, I > didn't bother comparing how my noobie code scaled against the C++. > LIKE OMG OCAML SUX0R! > > People post similar things for C#, PHP, any language really. Besides, > it is VERY VERY simple to troll slashdot. ...but on the other side..... we can thank such posts, because we had a nice evening and a theme to talk about... ;-) So, we are not better... ? ;-) Ciao, Oliver