From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>
To: Yaron Minsky <yminsky@janestreet.com>
Cc: jon@ffconsultancy.com, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Haskell vs OCaml
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:33:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130323233323.GC30390@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACLX4jTvVYzZNmj1qgko2hTwSGURV5eEh2NMmkTSh3N5ezGN1w@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 04:58:32PM -0400, Yaron Minsky wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> > Yaron wrote:
> >> I don't think OCaml is unfriendly to commercial users
> >
> > I meant that few people buy or sell commercial OCaml code compared to .NET,
> > particularly when the target market is OCaml programmers themselves.
>
> I agree, I would not recommend basing a business on selling OCaml code
> to programmers.
Or *selling* any code to programmers. Just release the source.
Developers don't want to deal with licensing and binary blobs.
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> One obvious one is GUI programming where I found OCaml+LablGTK to be
> anything but highly productive.
Gtk sucks from every language I've tried.
Rich.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-23 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2013-03-18 9:08 ` [Caml-list] " adrian.alexander.may
2013-03-18 9:48 ` Malcolm Matalka
2013-03-18 9:59 ` Gabriel Scherer
2013-03-18 11:05 ` Adrian May
2013-03-18 11:26 ` Kakadu
2013-03-18 18:05 ` [Caml-list] " Chet Murthy
2013-03-20 20:44 ` Jon Harrop
2013-03-20 21:10 ` Yaron Minsky
2013-03-21 0:26 ` Jon Harrop
2013-03-21 20:58 ` Yaron Minsky
2013-03-23 23:33 ` Richard W.M. Jones [this message]
2013-03-21 21:55 ` Török Edwin
2013-03-22 17:51 ` Jon Harrop
2013-03-22 18:46 ` Daniel Bünzli
2013-03-22 19:53 ` Jon Harrop
2013-03-22 20:23 ` Daniel Bünzli
2013-03-22 22:13 ` Jon Harrop
2013-03-22 23:35 ` Daniel Bünzli
2013-03-22 23:47 ` Chet Murthy
2013-03-23 0:02 ` Daniel Bünzli
2013-03-23 0:09 ` Chet Murthy
2013-03-23 1:17 ` Jon Harrop
2013-03-23 1:41 ` oliver
2013-03-23 1:15 ` Jon Harrop
2013-03-23 1:50 ` Daniel Bünzli
2013-03-25 1:22 ` Francois Berenger
2013-03-23 1:25 ` oliver
2013-03-19 1:23 ` [Caml-list] " Francois Berenger
2013-03-26 10:36 ` Nicolas Braud-Santoni
2013-03-26 0:49 ` Kristopher Micinski
2013-03-26 2:37 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2013-03-26 2:57 ` Kristopher Micinski
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