From: "chris.danx" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com>
To: Thomas Fischbacher <Thomas.Fischbacher@Physik.Uni-Muenchen.DE>
Cc: Erik de Castro Lopo <ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Estimating the size of the ocaml community
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 20:35:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42028B27.6020503@ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0502031903410.14412@eiger.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de>
Thomas Fischbacher wrote:
> Yes, indeed. I even learned to know a few people who did an Ocaml-related
> PhD which afterwards got totally absorbed by the idea that C were the
> only true and proper programming language.
>
> Huh.
Eww...
>
> Anyway, this leaves us with a very interesting question: how many people
> actually do believe in the value of Ocaml? I, for myself, use it whenever
> it is the most appropriate tool for a job (usually, when portability is
> an issue). This is sometimes the case, but more often than not, LISP
> turned out to be a better choice for what I do.
Sometimes it's Ocaml, sometimes it's Erlang or Oz, sometimes it's Ruby,
etc. Very rarely do I find C a good match for the problem - it takes a
certain level of skill to not screw up with C, a level I don't currently
possess.
I use OCaml as my language of choice for graphics work and some general
purpose tasks. It's got several benefits over some languages, the
compiler is pretty good and the community is fairly substantial. It has
good library support and some decent tutorials, references.
Chris
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2005-02-02 21:31 Yaron Minsky
2005-02-02 21:36 ` [Caml-list] " Christopher A. Watford
2005-02-02 21:54 ` Frédéric Gava
2005-02-03 3:58 ` skaller
2005-02-03 6:35 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2005-02-03 16:29 ` Olivier Pérès
2005-02-03 18:06 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-03 18:34 ` Frédéric Gava
2005-02-03 21:16 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-03 21:58 ` Paul Snively
2005-02-03 22:42 ` Bardur Arantsson
2005-02-03 23:29 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-03 22:33 ` josh
2005-02-03 23:22 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-03 23:39 ` Richard Jones
2005-02-04 9:04 ` Frédéric Gava
2005-02-04 9:37 ` Richard Jones
2005-02-04 10:11 ` Olivier Andrieu
2005-02-04 11:14 ` Frédéric Gava
2005-02-04 12:15 ` Richard Jones
2005-02-04 12:46 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-02-04 12:51 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2005-02-04 13:43 ` Richard W. M. Jones
2005-02-04 16:01 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2005-02-04 16:52 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-02-04 17:21 ` Frédéric Gava
2005-02-04 17:55 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-02-04 16:48 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-02-04 12:15 ` Olivier Andrieu
2005-02-04 16:42 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-02-04 10:58 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-02-04 17:27 ` Damien Doligez
2005-02-04 17:59 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-02-04 1:17 ` Michael Walter
2005-02-04 10:53 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-02-04 22:01 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-05 12:27 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-02-06 0:08 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-03 23:29 ` Richard Jones
2005-02-04 2:33 ` Jon Harrop
[not found] ` <877e9a170502031856175260c8@mail.gmail.com>
2005-02-04 2:56 ` Michael Walter
2005-02-04 10:26 ` [Caml-list] The boon of static type checking Jon Harrop
2005-02-04 17:02 ` Damien Doligez
2005-02-04 18:00 ` Jon Harrop
2005-02-04 20:38 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2005-02-04 21:42 ` Jon Harrop
2005-02-04 22:11 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2005-02-05 0:58 ` Jon Harrop
2005-02-05 1:52 ` Shivkumar Chandrasekaran
2005-02-07 18:47 ` Damien Doligez
2005-02-05 5:24 ` Jacques Garrigue
2005-02-04 21:52 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-04 22:27 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2005-02-05 10:00 ` Remi Vanicat
2005-02-06 11:18 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2005-02-04 22:55 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-06 0:02 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-06 0:56 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2005-02-06 10:03 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-06 1:34 ` Richard Jones
2005-02-06 2:30 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2005-02-06 9:54 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-02-06 10:05 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-05 21:48 ` Michael Walter
2005-02-06 10:22 ` Radu Grigore
2005-02-06 12:16 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2005-02-06 14:59 ` skaller
2005-02-06 22:30 ` Radu Grigore
2005-02-07 3:15 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2005-02-06 17:28 ` Jon
2005-02-06 22:26 ` Radu Grigore
2005-02-07 2:51 ` skaller
2005-02-07 1:54 ` skaller
2005-02-07 5:34 ` Brian Hurt
2005-02-07 6:16 ` Michael Walter
2005-02-07 14:58 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-02-12 15:22 ` Brian Hurt
2005-02-12 16:11 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-12 18:47 ` Brian Hurt
2005-02-12 21:58 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-12 17:06 ` skaller
2005-02-12 22:57 ` Michael Walter
2005-02-13 1:12 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-13 1:51 ` Tony Edgin
2005-02-13 2:12 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-13 10:26 ` Daniel Heck
2005-02-13 18:28 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-13 20:52 ` Michael Walter
2005-02-13 21:42 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-13 22:51 ` Michael Walter
2005-02-13 23:59 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-14 0:11 ` Michael Walter
2005-02-14 0:42 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-14 1:11 ` Michael Walter
2005-02-14 1:46 ` Michael Vanier
2005-02-14 1:57 ` Michael Walter
2005-02-14 14:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-14 14:36 ` [Caml-list] " Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-14 1:19 ` [Caml-list] " Michael Walter
2005-02-14 17:29 ` Martin Berger
2005-02-14 18:44 ` skaller
2005-02-14 19:17 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-14 2:22 ` skaller
2005-02-14 8:04 ` Paul Snively
2005-02-14 9:33 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-14 9:39 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-14 2:10 ` skaller
2005-02-13 2:27 ` Brian Hurt
2005-02-13 2:34 ` Michael Walter
2005-02-07 10:57 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2005-02-07 16:58 ` skaller
2005-02-07 17:24 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2005-02-07 17:56 ` Paul Snively
2005-02-07 17:59 ` skaller
2005-02-07 17:30 ` skaller
2005-02-07 13:07 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-02-12 15:42 ` Brian Hurt
2005-02-07 17:42 ` Ken Rose
2005-02-07 2:23 ` skaller
2005-02-04 9:29 ` [Caml-list] Estimating the size of the ocaml community Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-04 10:26 ` Andreas Rossberg
2005-02-04 17:54 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-04 15:43 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-02-04 19:54 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2005-02-04 20:20 ` Karl Zilles
2005-02-04 22:07 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-04 9:41 ` Richard Jones
2005-02-04 10:03 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-04 16:00 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-02-04 17:32 ` sejourne_kevin
2005-02-04 18:46 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-02-05 1:49 ` skaller
2005-02-04 8:55 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2005-02-04 9:36 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-04 10:30 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-02-04 22:02 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-05 13:14 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-02-05 16:37 ` Why can't types and exceptions be nested (was: Re: [Caml-list] Estimating the size of the ocaml community) Richard Jones
2005-02-05 17:04 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2005-02-05 19:26 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-02-06 2:56 ` skaller
2005-02-04 21:55 ` [Caml-list] Estimating the size of the ocaml community Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2005-02-03 19:04 ` ronniec95
2005-02-03 20:06 ` skaller
2005-02-03 20:50 ` chris.danx
2005-02-03 21:14 ` Jon Harrop
2005-02-03 21:34 ` chris.danx
2005-02-03 22:07 ` Bardur Arantsson
2005-02-03 21:47 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2005-02-04 3:52 ` skaller
2005-02-04 16:12 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-02-05 2:04 ` skaller
2005-02-03 20:35 ` chris.danx [this message]
2005-02-03 8:36 ` sejourne_kevin
2005-02-03 8:39 ` Matthieu Brucher
2005-02-03 16:23 ` Olivier Pérès
2005-02-03 10:10 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2005-02-03 16:44 ` Vincenzo Ciancia
2005-02-02 22:10 ` [Caml-list] " Kenneth Knowles
2005-02-02 22:40 ` Michael Jeffrey Tucker
2005-02-02 22:52 ` Richard Jones
2005-02-02 23:42 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2005-02-03 6:53 ` Evan Martin
2005-02-03 6:57 ` Eric Stokes
2005-02-03 20:53 ` chris.danx
2005-02-03 23:29 ` Sylvain LE GALL
2005-02-03 23:38 ` sejourne_kevin
2005-02-07 8:49 ` Sven Luther
2005-02-07 9:23 ` Johann Spies
2005-02-03 0:23 Don Syme
2005-02-04 19:36 Ernesto Posse
2005-02-04 23:57 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-02-05 13:24 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-02-05 2:27 ` skaller
2005-02-05 2:55 ` Michael Walter
2005-02-05 3:07 ` Ernesto Posse
2005-02-05 13:31 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-02-05 15:26 ` William D.Neumann
2005-02-05 16:41 ` Richard Jones
2005-02-05 4:58 ` Christopher A. Watford
2005-02-05 16:09 ` Martin Willensdorfer
2005-02-05 7:13 ` Kenneth Knowles
2005-02-05 13:39 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-02-20 12:49 Jon Harrop
2005-02-20 13:56 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2005-02-20 16:18 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2005-02-21 2:07 ` Jon Harrop
2005-02-21 6:25 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
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