Wow. Those are some harsh words, Jeff. Honestly, I don't see where you're coming from with these comments. 

What I would tell Brian though is the following: with 6 months of experience in ocaml, you may not have the ability to sell ocaml and its functional paradigm to a company that has a preconceived notion of what programming should be like. You'll encounter some difficulties - the same as with any language - and without the experience to deal with these hiccups, it'll be tough to convince your bosses to shift to a different way of thinking about programming. Tough, but doable.

-Yotam

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:03 PM, jeff tansley <jeff.tansley@btinternet.com> wrote:
Hi Brian,

Simple real advice - forget it - unless you are trying to get yourself
fired.
Whatever might be said on this list you will only be adding to what I
suspect is a bit of a software nightmare. Unless of course you have the
management power and intellect to tidy this up first but if this were the
case you wouldn't be mailing this list.
Just understand the stuff that Yaron points you at and look for another
appointment.

JBT

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Subject: [Caml-list] Networking Application

Hello All,

I work for a large US engineering firm and I am trying to find a way for our
team to do more with less, due to budgetary cutbacks in our engineering
center.

With that being said we have an existing java application that is in dire
need of a rewrite. I have been interested in ML and subsequently OCAML for
about 6 months and I am now looking for a way to integrate this passion of
mine into my work life. I see very real benefits from using this language at
work and its also applicable in our use case (we have a single core machine
with limited resources and I want us to use a cooperative threading library
like LWT or Async).

So I was wondering if people could point me in the direction of some open
source projects hosted on github that I can read through and try to emulate
in my proof of concept, sketch of a redesign that I show my supervisors. I
appreciate any help and since this is a side project it can be done right,
without any need to take hacky shortcuts.

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