From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id q04CIQfU002620 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 13:18:27 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AigGADVCBE8macht/2dsb2JhbABDggWqWgiBBYFpCQEBAQMBEgIsAQE3AQQLCwMBBwI5IhIBBQEcBhMUDodYmH0KijOEHwGOEQeMD4g8jEyFb4gOPYQY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,456,1320620400"; d="scan'208";a="125545383" Received: from unknown (HELO mxgoog1.janestreet.com) ([38.105.200.109]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 04 Jan 2012 13:18:21 +0100 Received: from mail-tul01m020-f170.google.com ([209.85.214.170]) by mxgoog1.janestreet.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RiPnP-00010Y-QU for caml-list@inria.fr; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:18:19 -0500 Received: by obcwo10 with SMTP id wo10so14570264obc.29 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:18:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=janestreet.com; s=google; h=mime-version:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=brfzDFwhMlU8DwFSMJf4CkTNpqndJfmBpWzibhy5WLY=; b=ZGyS2i/36gkPn3THXSXGlVZm8IeGNC6DlNBPjTsObtD0JNvUjOYNaLCxvI+heRd9AT HorrUMsSFzEACqjKxCoQuSrl0n55ETq45HZrtgb+YsCmx1Qv6G1GIFtZvtmpts382icR wL7+fTRQajcYivPFLAJQjjhEvPKCgvZrs69yk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.117.8 with SMTP id ka8mr12495314obb.73.1325679497837; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:18:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.11.167 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 04:18:17 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [67.247.17.113] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 07:18:17 -0500 Message-ID: From: Yaron Minsky To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Daniel_B=FCnzli?= Cc: caml-list Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d044786038dfbde04b5b2cf7d Subject: Re: [Caml-list] "Let"-less syntax for coreML --f46d044786038dfbde04b5b2cf7d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Daniel B=FCnzli wrote: > > The underlying question is "how to make ML mainstream" which is what the > > Am I the only one to be very, very, very, tired of this question ? > You're not the only one. I think the biggest thing the community can do to improve OCaml is not to tweak around with language design. It's to improve the library packaging situation. Oasis seems to be the effort in this direction that has the most momentum, so I think pushing Oasis to become every bit as good as Hackage and Cabal is really the place to get maximum leverage. y --f46d044786038dfbde04b5b2cf7d Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Daniel B=FCnzli <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch&g= t; wrote:
> The underlying question is "how to make ML main= stream" which is what the

Am I the only one to be very, very, very, tired of this question ?

You're not the only one.
I think the biggest thing the community can do to improve OCam= l is not to tweak around with language design. =A0It's to improve the l= ibrary packaging situation. =A0Oasis seems to be the effort in this directi= on that has the most momentum, so I think pushing Oasis to become every bit= as good as Hackage and Cabal is really the place to get maximum leverage.<= /div>

y
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