From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 256B5BC88 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:31:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j12LVU4E030998 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:31:30 +0100 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 WAA05740 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:31:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.195]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j12LVTes030993 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:31:29 +0100 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 58so121942wri for ; Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:31:29 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=orO+JB/RfDKK+S/sydjtJ57QMBUilFmbgVisFNLw1qqjbvvwYoVzSjyBqFcZA3nGlB7/gVhB4NqsZX17Uz0tL29bm2aMW6em4FMXULhiAHKfUqo9DOu9a6DNQcDLvV7+P4fAATA+43oWthuiulAv8dQWYfrKeLsvQO9ZtczZZWc= Received: by 10.54.28.80 with SMTP id b80mr206077wrb; Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:31:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.2.70 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:31:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <891bd33905020213315a2ebb18@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:31:28 -0500 From: Yaron Minsky Reply-To: yminsky@cs.cornell.edu To: Caml Mailing List Subject: Estimating the size of the ocaml community Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 420146B2.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 420146B1.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; yaron:01 minsky:01 yminsky:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 humps:01 compares:01 baretta:01 lexifi:01 caml-list:01 humps:01 yquem:01 dassault:01 caltech:02 caml:02 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_BY_IP autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: I've been trying to come up with some estimates on the size of the ocaml community, and I'm wondering if others have come up with anything better. Here's what I have so far: - The mailing list is supposed to have about 500 subscribers[1]. Hard to know if this number is up-to-date. I wonder if that number has changed over time, and what it is today. - The OCaml Humps contributors page[2] has about 200 members. - If you type OCaml into google, you get about 800k hits. This compares with 29 million for C++. "python programming" (without the quotes) gets about 5 million - If you type "ocaml resume", you get about 5.5k hits. If you type "python resume", you get about 270k hits. If you type "C++ resume", you get almost 1m hits. - Some schools teach ocaml. Brown and Caltech apparently have intro ocaml courses. Any other places that teach the language? Any ideas on how many students go through these courses? - A few companies use ocaml, including Baretta DE&IT, Dassault Aviation, LexiFi, Artisan (which has been bought up by AMD?) Anyone know of other such companies? It would be interesting to get a list togther of companies that use ocaml significantly. I'd be interested of any evidence people have of the size and vibrancy of the ocaml community. I'd be particularly interested in evidence of ocaml use in the United States, since it seems like a majority of ocaml use is outside of the US. [1] http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list [2] http://caml.inria.fr/humps/index_contributors.html