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=0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,MISSING_HEADERS,SPF_FAIL 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 D4BA2BBAF for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:49:34 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApsEAJ8/u0pQRFuw/2dsb2JhbACPT8g/hBsF X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,446,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="33457421" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 24 Sep 2009 18:49:34 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MqrVd-0001Vt-VQ for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:49:33 +0100 Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:49:33 +0100 Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OC4MC : OCaml for Multicore architectures Message-ID: <20090924164933.GA5637@annexia.org> References: <200909241252.24209.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <20090924123940.GA16175@usha.takhisis.invalid> <200909241409.56894.jon@ffconsultancy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200909241409.56894.jon@ffconsultancy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Richard Jones X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 0100,:01 ocaml:01 vastly:01 haskell:01 2009:98 sml:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 python:03 languages:03 static:03 programming:03 thu:05 sep:06 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