From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA20306; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:55:18 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA20520 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:55:17 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA03117 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:17:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (ppp138.dyn146.pacific.net.au [210.23.146.138]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f5CEHmj17960 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:17:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ozemail.com.au (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA08616; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 00:17:29 +1000 Message-ID: <3B262478.F927DF98@ozemail.com.au> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 00:17:28 +1000 From: John Max Skaller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12-20 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Fox CC: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml complexity References: <20010607015821.B11344@jean> <002c01c0ef7f$e154f3e0$5d26883e@baby> <20010608024102.A13672@jean> <003601c0f016$7ac12940$a00bfea9@baby> <20010608154623.A15375@jean> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk David Fox wrote: > I'm just saying that popularity is a good thing for a programming > language. Recent comment on the C++ committee refector indicates this is not always the case. Even obvious faults, especially in libraries, can't be fixed if there are too many users. For a growing language, _moderate_ growth would seem a reasonable compromise. -- John (Max) Skaller, mailto:skaller@maxtal.com.au 10/1 Toxteth Rd Glebe NSW 2037 Australia voice: 61-2-9660-0850 checkout Vyper http://Vyper.sourceforge.net download Interscript http://Interscript.sourceforge.net ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr