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 IAA13141; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:57:31 +0100 (MET) 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 IAA13347 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:57:30 +0100 (MET) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from athlon.baretta.com (host90-68.pool80116.interbusiness.it [80.116.68.90]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h2D7vTf23140 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:57:29 +0100 (MET) Received: from baretta.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.baretta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6E6427252; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:02:24 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3E703B10.1040403@baretta.com> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:02:24 +0100 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: Michael Schuerig , Ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity References: <200303122334.34982.schuerig@acm.org> <20030312231352.GC372@phaeton.entropie.net> <200303130035.39823.schuerig@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; alessandro:01 baretta:01 caml-list:01 weber:99 bugfix:01 week's:99 ocaml:01 alex:01 business:96 wrote:03 imperative:04 employees:95 enterprise:94 basically:06 i'm:07 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Michael Schuerig wrote: > On Thursday 13 March 2003 00:13, Martin Weber wrote: > > > I've been working on this kind of software for a couple of years and > can't say that I'm particularly attracted to it. To be sure, I > recognize that there are interesting aspects to it, but it's not what I > myself find interesting. Also, as I said before, I don't see that OCaml > provides a decisive advantage for *this* kind of software. Actually, I must say that it does provide THE decisive advantage over all other tools I reviewed, at least in terms of Web applications. After developing the Xcaml sytem, which is currently on Sourceforge--and wanting a little bugfix update, coming up--my company is now able to release a new custom "enterprise application" to the customer in more or less one week's time. The Xcaml system, which is basically nothing other than XML/HTML-embedded Ocaml, is giving us the edge to give our customers whatever they ask for the moment they ask for it. I think that Ocaml is a little more than the "the tool of choice for the discriminating hacker": it's tool of choice for professional business software development, at least if your employees are endowed with a measure of cognitive abilities. It does take a little thinking to get the hang of Ocaml--and Xcaml equivalently--but not that much after all. Hey, it's an imperative language at the end! 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