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From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OC4MC : OCaml for Multicore architectures
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:49:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090924164933.GA5637@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909241409.56894.jon@ffconsultancy.com>

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 02:09:56PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> Fair enough. I think this is the single most important development OCaml has 
> seen since its inception so I would personally drop OCaml in favor of oc4mc 
> even if it meant reverting to 3.10.2.

I think 'personally' is the key word there.  You forget that people
are quite happily programming in very slow languages like Perl,
Python, Ruby and Visual Basic, and those people vastly outnumber the
ones using F#, Haskell, OCaml, SML etc.  (They don't even have static
safety, dammit!).

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-24 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-22 21:30 Philippe Wang
2009-09-23 10:53 ` [Caml-list] " Goswin von Brederlow
2009-09-23 12:21   ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-23 13:00     ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-23 14:26       ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-24  0:21   ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-23 23:15     ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-24  0:05       ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24  0:01         ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-24  1:47           ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24  9:49             ` Richard Jones
2009-09-24 10:00               ` rixed
2009-09-24 10:40               ` Florian Hars
2009-09-24 11:45               ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24 10:00             ` kcheung
2009-09-24 11:52               ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24 11:55                 ` Rakotomandimby Mihamina
2009-09-24 12:11                 ` rixed
2009-09-24 15:58                   ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24 12:39                 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2009-09-24 13:09                   ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24 16:49                     ` Richard Jones [this message]
2009-09-24 16:56                       ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-24 17:36                         ` Richard Jones
2009-09-24 19:39                         ` rixed
2009-09-24 21:09                       ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24 21:26                         ` rixed
2009-09-25  4:07                         ` Jacques Garrigue
2009-09-25  7:32                           ` Hugo Ferreira
2009-09-25 10:17                             ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-25 13:04                               ` kcheung
2009-09-25 21:39                             ` Gerd Stolpmann
2009-09-25  9:33                           ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-25 21:39                           ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-26 16:55                             ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-25  8:08                         ` Stéphane Glondu
2009-09-25 15:05                     ` Xavier Leroy
2009-09-25 23:26                       ` Benjamin Canou
2009-09-26  0:45                         ` kcheung
2009-09-26  1:53                           ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-26 13:51                             ` kcheung
2009-09-26 14:46                               ` Jon Harrop
2009-10-10  4:01                         ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24 13:40                   ` Rakotomandimby Mihamina
2009-09-24 14:22                     ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-24 14:49                     ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2009-09-24 13:55                   ` Mike Lin
2009-09-24 14:52                     ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2009-09-24 15:36                 ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-24 15:50                   ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24 12:14             ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-24 13:11               ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24 14:51                 ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-24 14:57       ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-24 14:11 ` Dario Teixeira
2009-09-24 14:38   ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-24 15:20     ` Dario Teixeira
2009-09-24 23:28     ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24 23:25       ` Philippe Wang
2009-09-25 14:11       ` Philippe Wang
2009-11-08 18:12       ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-24 18:24 ` David Teller
     [not found] <20090924154716.BCD0ABC5A@yquem.inria.fr>
2009-09-24 16:02 ` Pascal Cuoq
2009-09-24 16:30   ` Philippe Wang

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