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 9C180BC45 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 01:32:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.syd.swiftdsl.com.au (smtp.syd.swiftdsl.com.au [218.214.224.138]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with SMTP id j78NWmN8026986 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 01:32:50 +0200 Received: (qmail 10876 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2005 23:32:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO coltrane.mega-nerd.net) (218.214.64.136) by smtp.syd.swiftdsl.com.au with SMTP; 8 Aug 2005 23:32:50 -0000 Received: from coltrane (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by coltrane.mega-nerd.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 516B57B86 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 09:32:46 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 09:32:45 +1000 From: Erik de Castro Lopo To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml for Industry Message-Id: <20050809093245.1beebca1.ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <200508081935.01424.jon@ffconsultancy.com> References: <200508011826.52882.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <200508081820.09595.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <1123523898.6848.107.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200508081935.01424.jon@ffconsultancy.com> Organization: Erik Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 42F7EBA0.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 compiler:01 syntax:01 binary:01 compilers:01 foolproof:98 nospam:98 wrote:01 data:02 construct:02 programming:03 programming:03 manipulate:04 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 Jon Harrop wrote: > I get the impression that most people here (like me) write OCaml code without > benefit of a manager. ;-) Well I tried to get Ocaml in the door where I work. I was tasked with writing what was basically a compiler; programming language like syntax on the input, construct internal representation, manipulate internal representation, write out binary data which is basically a state transition table for a program running in an embedded device. When this started I had already been programming in Ocaml for about 9 months and felt really comfortable with it. Ocaml is also ideal for compilers. I suggested it but management said no and I didn't push it. Ocaml is in their eyes a rather obsure language. I then suggested Java (with ANTLR) but no, then C++, no. In the end it was written in standard C with flex/bison. Every time I had to traverses a damned linked list in C I though of how easy and foolproof this would have been in Ocaml. So yes, the Ocaml code I write at home I do so without a manager (not even my wife is allowed to tell me what programming language to use :-)). Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo nospam@mega-nerd.com (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Good advice for everyone : stay away from churches, mosques and synagouges.