From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F3DDBBAF for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:15:37 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,241,1288566000"; d="scan'208";a="80018460" Received: from peermanence.saclay.inria.fr (HELO [195.83.212.205]) ([195.83.212.205]) by mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 23 Nov 2010 10:15:36 +0100 Message-ID: <4CEB8562.302@inria.fr> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:12:02 +0100 From: Fabrice Le Fessant User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Is OCaml fast? References: <538372.76249.qm@web111505.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <999386690.746882.1290478813177.JavaMail.root@zmbs4.inria.fr> In-Reply-To: <999386690.746882.1290478813177.JavaMail.root@zmbs4.inria.fr> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 1895:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 writes:01 simplest:02 shootout:02 inria:06 fabrice:08 fabrice:08 america:91 fessant:10 fessant:10 maybe:10 although:11 Maybe you should read "Tainted Truth: The Manipulation of Fact In America" by Cynthia Crossen ? --Fabrice Isaac Gouy wrote, On 11/23/2010 03:20 AM: > Dario Teixeira yahoo.com> writes: > -snip- >> There's lies, damn lies, and shootout statistics. > -snip- > > After all, facts are facts, > and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle > the words of the Wise Statesman, 'Lies--damned lies--and statistics,' > still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, > and the astutest cannot wriggle out of. > > Leonard Henry Courtney, 1895