From: Gaius Hammond <gaius@gaius.org.uk>
To: Henry Lenzi <henry.lenzi@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why don't you use batteries?
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 10:52:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5FDE313A-1EA9-4BC4-81F0-149154888B7A@gaius.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8b4c81f0909060147u7921b00aj83db4edb14907bc2@mail.gmail.com>
On 6 Sep 2009, at 09:47, Henry Lenzi wrote:
> OCaml needs more people. Where are the French, by the way? ;-)
That's an interesting question. I have a friend who is an
astrophysicist at a French observatory. He and his colleagues use
FORTRAN and more recently Python (which hands off its heavy numeric
work to LAPACK and BLAS). OCaml is unheard of, yet it ought to be
perfect for them. I have another friend at a large French consulting
firm - they are all Java for new work, plus whatever legacy languages
they have to maintain, and they've never heard of OCaml. Same is true
in French investment banking. Which is all very strange, the French
are well known for championing home-grown ideas over whatever Les
Rosbifs are doing (esp. since OCaml is clearly the more elegant
language!).
Cheers,
G
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2009-09-03 13:05 Edgar Friendly
2009-09-03 13:15 ` [Caml-list] " Rakotomandimby Mihamina
2009-09-03 13:25 ` Alan Schmitt
2009-09-05 8:47 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2009-09-06 10:03 ` Alan Schmitt
2009-09-06 10:15 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2009-09-06 10:29 ` Alan Schmitt
2009-09-03 14:10 ` kattla
2009-09-05 8:59 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2009-09-03 14:25 ` Vincent Aravantinos
2009-09-03 14:35 ` Dario Teixeira
2009-09-04 0:08 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-04 6:18 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2009-09-04 6:39 ` Gaius Hammond
2009-09-04 14:04 ` Richard Jones
2009-09-03 15:00 ` Ashish Agarwal
2009-09-03 18:24 ` Alp Mestan
2009-09-03 20:38 ` Ashish Agarwal
2009-09-03 15:50 ` Tom Hutchinson
2009-09-04 8:55 ` Pierre Etchemaite
2009-09-04 9:32 ` Stéphane Glondu
2009-09-04 10:26 ` Vincent Aravantinos
2009-09-04 10:26 ` Andrej Bauer
2009-09-04 14:10 ` Richard Jones
2009-09-04 14:38 ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2009-09-04 18:37 ` Gaius Hammond
2009-09-05 4:53 ` Rakotomandimby Mihamina
2009-09-05 9:44 ` David Allsopp
2009-09-05 10:22 ` rixed
2009-09-05 12:03 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-05 11:11 ` Rakotomandimby Mihamina
2009-09-05 12:02 ` Richard Jones
2009-09-05 21:19 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-05 10:23 ` Gaius Hammond
2009-09-05 11:36 ` Jon Harrop
2009-09-05 11:52 ` Richard Jones
[not found] ` <b364036a0909050359q25fbab92l88b2415812941ae1@mail.gmail.com>
2009-09-06 7:47 ` Fwd: " dmitry grebeniuk
2009-09-06 7:59 ` Adrien
2009-09-06 8:47 ` Henry Lenzi
2009-09-06 9:46 ` Rakotomandimby Mihamina
2009-09-06 9:52 ` Gaius Hammond [this message]
2009-09-06 13:24 ` Olivier Schwander
2009-09-06 11:34 ` rixed
2009-09-04 19:53 ` Richard Jones
2009-09-11 16:07 ` Florent Ouchet
2009-09-04 15:05 ` Rakotomandimby Mihamina
2009-09-03 16:13 ` Richard Jones
2009-09-03 16:49 ` Jake Donham
2009-09-03 17:00 ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2009-09-03 18:18 ` Jean-Christophe Filliâtre
2009-09-04 3:24 ` Mike Lin
2009-09-04 3:36 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2009-09-04 3:44 ` Edgar Friendly
2009-09-04 4:29 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2009-09-04 8:18 ` Stéphane Glondu
2009-09-04 11:40 ` Jean-Christophe Filliâtre
2009-09-03 19:08 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2009-09-03 23:13 ` [Caml-list] " Philippe Wang
2009-09-03 23:19 ` Hugo Schmitt
2009-09-04 3:34 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2009-09-04 5:52 ` David MENTRE
2009-09-04 6:21 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2009-09-05 10:01 ` rixed
2009-09-06 9:56 ` Philip
2009-09-30 12:27 ` Rakotomandimby Mihamina
[not found] <20090904061012.A1167BCC4@yquem.inria.fr>
2009-09-04 10:47 ` Pascal Cuoq
2009-09-04 14:25 Dario Teixeira
2009-09-04 21:21 ` Richard Jones
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