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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:56:13 +0200
From: David MENTRE <david.mentre@gmail.com>
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To: Robert Morelli <morelli@cs.utah.edu>
Subject: Large scale and FP (was: Re: [Caml-list] (Mostly) Functional Design?)
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Hello Robert,

2005/7/18, Robert Morelli <morelli@cs.utah.edu>:
>    1.  The FP community tends to emphasize low level issues rather than
> the larger scale issues that concern most programmers.  It is also
> inept at practical documentation and advocacy.

What do you call practical documentation?

>    2.  There isn't much of a theory of large scale functional design.
> At least,  there is no consensus.

What do you call large scale? Could you give some metrics (number of
lines of code, number of objects, ..), even if such metrics are a bit
meaningless?

Yours,
d.