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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Haskell vs OCaml

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.