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From: Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml & Microsoft?
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:36:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060726073617.GB446@first.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44C6C3C9.1080600@gushee.net>

On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 07:22:17PM -0600, Matt Gushee wrote:
> Hi, all--
> 
> I just noticed that Microsoft is a member of the OCaml Consortium. 
> Anyone know what, if anything, they are actually using OCaml for?
[...]

They have developed F#, a OCaml-port without OO-layer.

Also some Haskell-people are at M$, so I think they see
that FPLs are a powerful tool.



> 
> I am preparing an OCaml presentation for my local Linux user's group, 
> and this seems like an interesting sidelight (though perhaps not 
> entirely welcome, given the audience).
> 

I was wondering since when M$ is part of the OCaml consortium.
I think they weren't from the beginning on. (Maybe this information
could be added to the OCaml-pages, where the consortium is mentioned?!).


Ciao,
   Oliver


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-26  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-26  1:22 Matt Gushee
2006-07-26  1:27 ` [Caml-list] " Robert Roessler
2006-07-26  7:36 ` Oliver Bandel [this message]
2006-07-26  8:15 ` Virgile Prevosto
2006-07-26  8:18 Basile STARYNKEVITCH

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