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=0.3 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 mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4A9BBC37 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 00:57:37 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgUCAF/mn0rUnwcjjWdsb2JhbACCIpkaAQEBAQkJCgkRBr9ghBsF X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,327,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="45984249" Received: from relay.ptn-ipout01.plus.net ([212.159.7.35]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 04 Sep 2009 00:57:37 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArEEAF/mn0rUnw6R/2dsb2JhbACCItk6hBsF Received: from ptb-relay01.plus.net ([212.159.14.145]) by relay.ptn-ipout01.plus.net with ESMTP; 03 Sep 2009 23:57:37 +0100 Received: from [87.114.1.46] (helo=leper.local) by ptb-relay01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1MjLFI-0000YE-Np for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:57:36 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why don't you use batteries? Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 01:08:32 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <32407.45042.qm@web111512.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <32407.45042.qm@web111512.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200909040108.32259.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: e548a495f4a3850a2f362722bf30ec56 X-Spam: no; 0.00; haskell:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 apt-get:01 2009:98 campaign:98 1.0:98 frog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 apis:03 tutorial:03 install:05 mere:92 elaborate:07 On Thursday 03 September 2009 15:35:20 Dario Teixeira wrote: > a) Lack of exposure to the advantages of Batteries. It borrows lots of > cool ideas from Haskell, but that may not be immediately apparent. Can you elaborate on this? > You guys should take advantage of the Ocaml Planet to run a publicity > campaign: you can make a number of tutorial posts showing the "old" > way versus the Batteries way. There's more to Batteries than just > a collection of APIs, and that message may not be getting through. I would very much like to learn batteries and write OCaml Journal articles about it. The main reason I have not is not just that it has not reached 1.0 yet but that it is not a mere "apt-get install" away for most users. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e