From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id q04B8Arr032453 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 12:08:10 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AnEBADEyBE9KfVI0imdsb2JhbABDggWDC6dPCCIBAQEKCQ0HEgYhgXIBAQEEEgIPZgsLDwImAgIiEgEFARwGNaBRCosdkUiBL4lKgRYElQSNfT2Dew X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,455,1320620400"; d="scan'208";a="137798575" Received: from mail-ww0-f52.google.com ([74.125.82.52]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-MD5; 04 Jan 2012 12:08:05 +0100 Received: by wgbdr12 with SMTP id dr12so33396359wgb.9 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:08:05 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.60.14 with SMTP id n14mr55191157wbh.5.1325675285417; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:08:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.180.106.8 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 03:08:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 12:08:05 +0100 Message-ID: From: Andrej Bauer To: caml-list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] "Let"-less syntax for coreML I was once at a talk in which we discussed new programming concepts in a programming language. One person said "a new programming language whose concepts are not understood by ordinary programers is worthless", to which another replied "a new programming language whose concepts are understood by ordinary programmers is worthless". Cheers, Andrej