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 EAA27021; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 04:25:51 +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 EAA27022 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 04:25:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from relay.pair.com (relay1.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g7U2PmX27481 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 04:25:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 26851 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2002 02:25:46 -0000 Received: from slip32-106-38-175.por.uk.prserv.net (HELO checkerlap.d6.com) (32.106.38.175) by relay1.pair.com with SMTP; 30 Aug 2002 02:25:46 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 32.106.38.175 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020829192221.0298b410@mail.d6.com> X-Sender: checker@mail.d6.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 19:25:33 -0700 To: james woodyatt , The Trade From: Chris Hecker Subject: Re: [Caml-list] objective caml and industry In-Reply-To: References: <15725.62310.16647.701975@hod.void.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk >+ Hysteresis. >+ Type inference is scary. >+ Deployment issues. >+ Stupidity. None of these are things the dev team needs to be working on...not that they're not important, but the community, if it got its act together, could solve all of these problems, or rather they could make as much headway on them as the dev team. By contrast, the community cannot add massively subtle and complicated features to the compiler; only the dev team can do that. Chris ------------------- 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