From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34471BBAF for ; Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:20:00 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AnQBALv3uknUnwckk2dsb2JhbACCHZMaAQEBAQkJCgkRBLoFg34G X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,362,1233529200"; d="scan'208";a="22553303" Received: from relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net ([212.159.7.36]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 14 Mar 2009 08:20:00 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aq4FAH73uknUnw6T/2dsb2JhbACCHc1dg34G Received: from ptb-relay03.plus.net ([212.159.14.147]) by relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net with ESMTP; 14 Mar 2009 07:19:59 +0000 Received: from [87.115.65.144] (helo=leper.local) by ptb-relay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1LiOA3-0006YF-92; Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:19:59 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: yminsky@gmail.com, caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] caml trading Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:25:32 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <891bd3390903131252t7feb059aq94f56b0a4d2efbf3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <891bd3390903131252t7feb059aq94f56b0a4d2efbf3@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903140725.32884.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 87cfbb703998c5c6fec52ad32da8e21f X-Spam: no; 0.00; yaron:01 minsky:01 ocaml:01 popl:01 parallelism:01 2009:98 frog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 caml:02 handles:03 mentioning:03 problem:05 painless:93 efficient:07 On Friday 13 March 2009 19:52:14 Yaron Minsky wrote: > For those who are interested, I just posted a video of a talk I gave at CMU > several weeks ago about Jane Street's use of OCaml. This is an updated > version of the talk I gave at POPL last year. Various people have > expressed an interest in showing the talk to their undergraduate classes, > so I thought it worth mentioning on the list. Very interesting. I do have a couple of points: . If you want to see shared-memory parallelism done right look at Cilk. It is both painless and incredibly efficient. . I don't know how F# handles nulls but it has never caused me a problem and I've used many .NET libraries from F# including MDX, WPF, XNA and, of course, the framework itself. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e