From: Paolo Donadeo <p.donadeo@gmail.com>
To: OCaml mailing list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] beginners or not (Was: build problem with 3.12.0; no ocamlrun in /usr/local/bin)
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:53:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTin-3RbO=BB41uf+T7vvN-0Jj1QEyA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinHjXX0UfF+J=4+1Ku+m1sG93oPrA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 15:41, Philippe Wang <mail@philippewang.info> wrote:
> I believe that discussions about types that less than 1% of all ocaml
> programmers understand, recursive functors (for these it must be even
> worse), GC tweaking, etc. is "hacking".
> I don't think it's harmful to have such discussions in the standard
> mailing list.
> But I think it's harmful that the standard mailing list gives priority
> to such discussions rather than to beginners, even if I kind of prefer
> the current situation for practical reasons.
100% agree.
Personally I consider discussions on garbage collecting recursive
functors very interesting, but keeping the two communities separate is
not a wise choice.
--
Paolo ⠠⠵
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-28 13:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-27 20:39 [Caml-list] build problem with 3.12.0; no ocamlrun in /usr/local/bin derek.schutt
2011-06-27 20:51 ` Andrew Psaltis
2011-06-27 21:24 ` Derek Schutt
2011-06-28 4:47 ` Mihamina Rakotomandimby
2011-06-28 7:58 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2011-06-28 12:17 ` [Caml-list] beginners or not (Was: build problem with 3.12.0; no ocamlrun in /usr/local/bin) Mihamina Rakotomandimby
2011-06-28 12:30 ` Philippe Wang
2011-06-28 12:35 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-06-28 13:38 ` Mihamina Rakotomandimby
2011-06-28 13:47 ` Edgar Friendly
2011-06-28 13:41 ` Philippe Wang
2011-06-28 13:53 ` Paolo Donadeo [this message]
2011-06-28 19:39 ` Martin Jambon
2011-06-29 8:58 ` Dario Teixeira
2011-06-28 12:40 ` Mehdi Dogguy
2011-06-28 12:59 ` Wojciech Meyer
2011-06-28 13:04 ` Christophe Raffalli
2011-06-28 13:25 ` [Caml-list] beginners or not Matteo Frigo
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