From: Erik de Castro Lopo <ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The Caml morale crasher #1
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 16:06:56 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050903160656.3d2c9ca8.ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <007f01c5af12$c10db3e0$bbe6f8c1@oemcomputer>
Damien Guichard wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Do you remember the Smalltalk "morale crasher #1" ?
>
> http://www.bytesmiths.com/Publications/9701ArchitectsVersusCoders.html
>
> A similar story happened to me.
>
> When annoucing an OCaml project on a public forum i have been
> advised to renunce lambdas because it would impede translation
> to "a less obscure, more popular language".
Since you are writing the code, you get to choose the language
and the features you wish to use. You also get to tell anyone
who disagrees to go jump :-).
Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-03 6:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-01 16:32 Damien Guichard
2005-09-03 6:06 ` Erik de Castro Lopo [this message]
2005-09-07 11:58 ` Matt Gushee
2005-09-07 18:06 ` Damien Guichard
2005-09-07 18:06 ` Damien Guichard
2005-09-09 22:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-09-08 12:46 ` [Caml-list] " Florian Weimer
2005-09-08 12:55 yoann padioleau
2005-09-08 16:35 ` skaller
2005-09-08 16:44 ` David Brown
2005-09-08 17:14 ` Florian Weimer
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