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 VAA04351; Sat, 15 May 2004 21:06:06 +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 VAA02755 for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 21:06:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from orcaware.com (bdsl.66.12.233.174.gte.net [66.12.233.174]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4FJ63EV030165 for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 21:06:04 +0200 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by orcaware.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i4FJ61sR018265; Sat, 15 May 2004 12:06:01 -0700 Message-ID: <40A66A19.1030404@orcaware.com> Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 12:06:01 -0700 From: Blair Zajac User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Macintosh/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Hurt CC: Ocaml Mailing List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] A short history of Ocaml References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 40A66A1B.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; blair:01 zajac:01 blair:01 orcaware:01 caml-list:01 spelled:99 stupid:01 wiki:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 wrote:03 incorrect:04 grammar:05 seems:05 i'd:06 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Brian Hurt wrote: > For a long, involved, reason, I've written a short (about 1 page) history > of Ocaml, as best as I understand it from various on-line resources. I'd > like to get everyone's opinions on it, especially the people who were > there (please oh please check to make sure I spelled everyone's name > correct- I'm a stupid 'merkin and not used to charaters with accents, > unless they come from the south :-). Comments on all levels- from flawed > chronology and incorrect causality to bad grammar and misspellings are > welcomed. Don't worry about hurting my feelings. > > The HTML version is here: > http://www.bogonomicon.org/bblog/ocaml-history.html Good read. I don't know if it's accurate, but what about putting it into the Wikipedia after it gets vetted out? Seems like a natural place for this type of review. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocaml Best, Blair ------------------- 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