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 mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61E92BBAF for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 00:13:53 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjICAA6K4UtKfVI0mGdsb2JhbACdSwgVAQEBAQEICQwHESKuJYIAhTcuiE4BAQMFhQ4E X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.52,336,1270418400"; d="scan'208";a="58737512" Received: from mail-ww0-f52.google.com ([74.125.82.52]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 06 May 2010 00:13:53 +0200 Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so433521wwi.39 for ; Wed, 05 May 2010 15:13:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:cc:message-id:from:to :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version :subject:date:references:x-mailer; bh=blsjWpe8kTDdK0zebcMpB107Kpq6XVC9+4kbk/hKa9E=; b=m8Ee0XJezmqc1Pchc59yUEc3Pssn38lu8Rt9FoTHPL4u059yE5wnifD384fr0k8vc3 ichaYTocdCiyG5TQlEUmGSzEcbn0WTvdWmCkZJYwLAw4CDqRR6Ce4GvJEmgHw0Eu1ll6 Y5JtE/mWSXWO0fJ4EH+W1cKfC1HkgBMFjJ9jI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=cc:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references :x-mailer; b=HOIZSiLmLc6yHScsD63dQfZ5En7iPiIPjiQCpsgEXjoUhDu4471h6ot43GGu1rDgCT dS2Oovh+HJchiSaJKGhFS0oo8bZ2cyq2k35CrFlZ9RzjJYKY8p1Cg3xaVNbUry98F5JK +iarvkcJ/y401t8M6A2U9uvm3+r/NGVFM5LaI= Received: by 10.227.132.134 with SMTP id b6mr3334042wbt.80.1273097632861; Wed, 05 May 2010 15:13:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.11] (tui75-1-81-57-73-233.fbx.proxad.net [81.57.73.233]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x14sm1950454wbs.18.2010.05.05.15.13.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 05 May 2010 15:13:52 -0700 (PDT) Cc: caml-list Message-Id: <698DAC90-16B7-452B-B43D-B5A708380231@gmail.com> From: Vincent Aravantinos To: Ed Keith In-Reply-To: <951508.20587.qm@web58708.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] about OcamIL Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 00:13:50 +0200 References: <951508.20587.qm@web58708.mail.re1.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Spam: no; 0.00; eray:01 ozkural:01 ocaml:01 eray:01 ocaml:01 10,:98 wrote:01 unix:01 unix:01 caml-list:01 explicitly:02 seems:03 stream:04 guess:04 size:95 Le 5 mai 10 =E0 21:16, Ed Keith a =E9crit : > --- On Wed, 5/5/10, Eray Ozkural wrote: > >> Or use the real ocaml on a real OS >> (^_^) >> > > I do not understand UNIX bigotry. > > Yes, Unix is technically superior to Windows. But Plan 9 is =20 > technically superior to Unix. But I doubt Eray is running Plan 9. > > More computers run Windows than all other OS's combined. If you want =20= > a large user base you need to support Windows. If you do not care =20 > about the size of your user base, write for Plan 9. > > Personalty I try to support as many systems as practical. > > It bothers me that the Ocaml community seems to consider Windows =20 > developers as second class citizens. Until this changes Ocaml will =20 > never be a main stream language. F# may eat it's lunch. But F# is =20 > tied to Windows, Ocaml has the potential to be multi-platform. I =20 > just wish it would live up to this potential. I guess you shouldn't take some stup** trollism as representing the =20 whole community thinking though. I am not a Windows user but this kind of "Windows sucks" remark pisses =20= me off. Still, it's a fact that it's hard to use ocaml on Windows but there =20 are frequently some posts on this list showing that many ocamlers do =20 care about Windows. The Ocaml Team explicitly requests some help of windows users to test =20= the releases because they know it's a downside of ocaml. I think this shows that they really seem to care about it and try to =20 improve. V.=