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 KAA08041; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:13:03 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA08725 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:13:02 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from athlon.baretta.com (r-mi214-6a37.tin.it [62.211.4.37]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g988D0D19597; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:13:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from baretta.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.baretta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 922E827250; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:23:15 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3DA28FFE.1060600@baretta.com> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 09:57:50 +0200 From: Alessandro Baretta Organization: Baretta srl -- www.baretta.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: it, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel de Rauglaudre , Ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Threats on future of Camlp4 References: <20021006205517.B19829@verdot.inria.fr> <20021007072153.GA1326@iliana> <20021007105238.B25685@verdot.inria.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Daniel de Rauglaudre wrote: > Another example: I was very shocked, some time ago, that the icon of > Caml Light was "Joe Camel". Very funny, for students, but serious at > industialization level. When I said that, they laughed at me, > telling that I have no sense of humour. > > Sorry, 6 millions deaths by cancer of lung EACH YEAR in the world does > not make me laugh. And the free ad of a seller of tobacco is serious > and important. I don't want to be a party to that. Industrials don't > have a "sense of humour", I am sorry. I am absolutely sure that we > have lost customers because of that. Even the name "Caml Light" is > absolutely suspect: students in France are learning it. And some of > them go here to make a thesis, or an a training course and bring their > packets of Camel, that they smoke, and smile at that. Perhaps they > think that we accept them better if they smoke Camels? > > Therefore, the ocaml team is not professionnal, I am sorry. I am an anti-smoke radical, and I must state this before I continue. "Joe Camel" c'est sympa! C'est tout! I refuse to delete from my vocabulary all words and acronyms which in specific contexts mean something I abhor. For example, I do not advocate nuking Marlborough, Massachusetts, because of the famous cigarettes. This project is about catergorical abstract "machins", not about cigarettes. Sorry for mixing French and English, but some words like "sympa" and "machin" cannot be translated. Alex ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners