From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr 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 860AEBC40 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:29:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j78HT0mg020705 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:29:00 +0200 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 TAA17085 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:28:59 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pih-relay04.plus.net (pih-relay04.plus.net [212.159.14.131]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j78HSwCh020698 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:28:59 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=chetara) by pih-relay04.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1E2BQl-0003pi-DX for caml-list@inria.fr; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 18:28:55 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml for Industry Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 18:20:09 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200508011826.52882.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <013d01c59c3c$a93375e0$0100a8c0@warp> In-Reply-To: <013d01c59c3c$a93375e0$0100a8c0@warp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508081820.09595.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 42F7965C.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 42F7965A.004 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml:01 cannasse:01 ocaml:01 compilers:01 ...:98 frog:98 wrote:01 imho:01 structures:01 data:02 caml:02 nicolas:02 objective:02 sell:96 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=INITIAL_INVEST autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 On Monday 08 August 2005 18:14, Nicolas Cannasse wrote: > That's bad news that nobody answered to this interesting topic within one > week. Yes. Back to the drawing board. :-) > As for buying a report, it might be nice to freely provide some results and > trends and then sell the "full report" if it's what you want to do. Rather than writing a whole report (seeing as there's no interest in it), perhaps it would be better to have a news letter that people can subscribe to? That would be cheaper for customers and would require less initial investment on our part. > My company is using OCaml is a lot of our projects, mainly for development > tools (compilers, level generators, resources builders... ). It's perfectly > suitable in the case where you need to manipulate a lot of data structures > and apply algorithms to them. Yes, that is exactly what we are finding. There is also a market for OCaml-generated C code, IMHO. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. Objective CAML for Scientists http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists