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 BAA02929; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 01:19:10 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f 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 BAA02963 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 01:19:09 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (ppp100.dyn146.pacific.net.au [210.23.146.100]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f75NJ6b24708 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 01:19:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from maxtal.com.au (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA04205; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 09:18:44 +1000 Message-ID: <3B6DD454.7199D7B1@maxtal.com.au> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 09:18:44 +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: Arturo Borquez CC: jspies@maties.sun.ac.za, caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml learning References: <20010804020308.26615.cpmta@c012.sfo.cp.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Arturo Borquez wrote: > 7) Finally learn and exercise all the elegant beauty > stuffs the language provide to become an addicted! But be warned! As a professional programmer .. I am no longer employable. I just can't deal with working in a C++ environment where Ocaml would do the job so much better. I'm a 3 year -- hard core -- addict. After learning Ocaml, you may need to sacrifice your time -- and ethics, if you actually care about productivity -- to continue to work in industry. Perhaps in 5 years, you will be a highly sought after specialist who can implement complex tasks in half the time a team of 10 C++ programmers can. And perhaps you will be lucky, and have the freedom to design your own (Ocaml) solutions to problems, without being constrained by the ignorance of others. I have been lucky twice, to write Ocaml and get paid for it, so it isn't impossible .. Just be warned. Ocaml is dangerous. Its just too good. -- John (Max) Skaller, mailto:skaller@maxtal.com.au 10/1 Toxteth Rd Glebe NSW 2037 Australia voice: 61-2-9660-0850 New generation programming language Felix http://felix.sourceforge.net Literate Programming tool 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