From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA17333; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 21:35:42 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA06488 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 21:35:41 +0100 (MET) Received: from tor.abc.se (ns.abc.se [195.17.72.11]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f2NKZeX17690 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 21:35:40 +0100 (MET) Received: from gateway (dialup-85 [195.17.73.85]) by tor.abc.se (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA24366 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 21:35:38 +0100 (MET) From: "Mattias Waldau" Cc: "OCAML" Subject: [Caml-list] Why People Aren't Using OCAML? (was Haskell) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 21:35:38 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Something we should think about also for Ocaml http://www.jelovic.com/articles/why_people_arent_using_haskell.htm "What can be done about this? First and foremost the Haskell community must make a standard distribution of Haskell that contains enough libraries to be useful. That should include a regular expression library, an Internet protocol library, a library for dealing with standard internet data and encoding, a crypto library, a multimedia library and a GUI library. Next, the Haskell community must step out of its research circles and start publicizing Haskell to the practicing programmers. Write articles in DDJ and similar publications. Publish real-world programs written in Haskell." Most of this is also relevant for Ocaml, for example there are crypto libraries and XML-support (for example PXP, which require wlex, which is a hazzle). I stumbled over Ocaml, thanks to Mercury and ICFP-contest. /mattias ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr