From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A2CFBBAF for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:56:32 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ag4CAPdBu0qE4zwCmWdsb2JhbACafwEBAQEBCAsKBxO8WYQbBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,446,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="34926448" Received: from isis.lip6.fr ([132.227.60.2]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 24 Sep 2009 18:56:21 +0200 Received: from tibre.lip6.fr (tibre.lip6.fr [132.227.74.2]) by isis.lip6.fr (8.14.3/lip6) with ESMTP id n8OGuI64008610 ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:56:18 +0200 (CEST) X-pt: isis.lip6.fr Received: from [127.0.0.1] (micmac [132.227.83.124]) by tibre.lip6.fr (8.14.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n8OGuGgl026706; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:56:18 +0200 (MEST) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OC4MC : OCaml for Multicore architectures Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1076) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes From: Philippe Wang In-Reply-To: <20090924164933.GA5637@annexia.org> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:56:16 +0200 Cc: Philippe Wang , caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: References: <200909241252.24209.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <20090924123940.GA16175@usha.takhisis.invalid> <200909241409.56894.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <20090924164933.GA5637@annexia.org> To: Richard Jones X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1076) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (isis.lip6.fr [132.227.60.2]); Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:56:18 +0200 (CEST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 132.227.60.2 X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 0100,:01 ocaml:01 vastly:01 haskell:01 2009:98 warming:98 sml:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 python:03 languages:03 static:03 programming:03 On Sep 24, 2009, at 18:49 GMT+02:00, Richard Jones wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 02:09:56PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote: >> Fair enough. I think this is the single most important development >> OCaml has >> seen since its inception so I would personally drop OCaml in favor >> of oc4mc >> even if it meant reverting to 3.10.2. > > I think 'personally' is the key word there. You forget that people > are quite happily programming in very slow languages like Perl, > Python, Ruby and Visual Basic, and those people vastly outnumber the > ones using F#, Haskell, OCaml, SML etc. (They don't even have static > safety, dammit!). Should we tell them that using CPU for nothing (side-effect for using a "slow language") has a bad effect on global warming? Could it be a wake-up call? :-p half-kidding, Philippe Wang