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 TAA21689; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 19:24:29 +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 TAA21870 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 19:24:27 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from rabelais.socialtools.net (rabelais.socialtools.net [81.2.94.243]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3DHOQYM029477 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 19:24:26 +0200 Received: by rabelais.socialtools.net (Postfix, from userid 108) id EBAB92332F; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:24:25 +0100 (BST) Received: from socialtools.net (chaucer.socialtools.net [81.2.94.242]) by rabelais.socialtools.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F26B2232DF; Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:24:24 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <407C223A.7080602@socialtools.net> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:24:10 +0100 From: Benjamin Geer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, fr, it MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gerd Stolpmann Cc: Trevor Andrade , "'John Goerzen'" , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Dynamically evaluating OCaml code References: <000001c4211e$aa699c40$24ab978e@trevorkrny6zst> <1081855023.282.36.camel@ares> In-Reply-To: <1081855023.282.36.camel@ares> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on rabelais.socialtools.net X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Miltered: at concorde by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 dynamically:01 gerd:01 stolpmann:01 attracts:99 modelling:01 apis:01 perceptive:01 faq:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 wrote:03 observation:03 probably:05 mostly:06 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 278 Gerd Stolpmann wrote: > Don't forget that ocaml attracts mostly creative and individual people. > Even the core language supports that, there are usually many ways of > modelling APIs and such. I predict you would fail miserably if you tried > to establish a larger standardization process. This is a very perceptive observation and should probably be an FAQ. :) However, even creative and individual people need standards in order to work together. Here we are all speaking English (and sometimes French), for example. Ben ------------------- 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