From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B8D6BC48 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:26:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from furbychan.cocan.org (furbychan.cocan.org [80.68.91.176]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j35EQLjo007294 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:26:21 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DIp0S-00049Q-00; Tue, 05 Apr 2005 15:26:16 +0100 Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:26:16 +0100 To: Jon Harrop Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: some comments on ocaml{lex,yacc} from a novice's POV Message-ID: <20050405142616.GA13493@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <49464.202.164.198.46.1112355123.squirrel@www.ivorykite.com> <200504041051.07270.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <87mzsdv3gb.fsf@nagash.wacky> <200504051449.39133.jon@ffconsultancy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200504051449.39133.jon@ffconsultancy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 4252A00D.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml:01 caml-list:01 notepad:01 ...:98 wrote:01 typing:01 lex:01 argument:01 caml:02 archives:02 dynamic:03 perhaps:03 suppose:05 posters:05 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 02:49:38PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote: > For example, I recently tried to write programs to compute the number of > unique posters per month on the two caml lists. Perhaps a case for a specialised language? Once you've split up the mail into monthly archives, something like: < mail/caml-list.YYYY.MM formail -s formail -x 'From:' | sort -u | wc -l (This is, I suppose, an argument for not just dynamic typing, but tolerating a complete lack of checks altogether ...) Rich. -- Richard Jones, CTO Merjis Ltd. Merjis - web marketing and technology - http://merjis.com Team Notepad - intranets and extranets for business - http://team-notepad.com