From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: 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 40CA5BBAF for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:36:37 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aq4AAM5AL0vUnwckkGdsb2JhbACCGYFxl0QBAQEBCQkMBxMErCyOPoEvgi1SBA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,432,1257116400"; d="scan'208";a="52609387" Received: from relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net ([212.159.7.36]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 21 Dec 2009 18:36:37 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtwEAFZBL0tUXebz/2dsb2JhbACCGYFxxDuOP4Evgi1SBA Received: from relay02.plus.net ([84.93.230.243]) by relay.ptn-ipout02.plus.net with ESMTP; 21 Dec 2009 17:36:36 +0000 Received: from [87.114.35.173] (helo=leper.local) by relay02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1NMmBQ-0003Yi-Dw for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:36:36 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] general question, was Re: OCaml is broken Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:50:42 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <4B2D2BC1.6020204@msu.edu> <8D2436E9-A41B-48D4-B844-A82E57D47CA2@pulsschlag.net> <1261407015.2425.43.camel@io> In-Reply-To: <1261407015.2425.43.camel@io> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200912211850.42204.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 310aa93971a5703a3e0c45bd0b7e129e X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 2009:98 javascript:98 frog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 functional:02 functional:02 languages:03 languages:03 programming:03 mainstream:06 mainstream:06 ltd:87 question:13 On Monday 21 December 2009 14:50:15 Philip wrote: > Functional programming languages will never become mainstream. C# 3 and Javascript are mainstream functional languages. F# is next. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e