From: "Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@indiegamedesign.com>
To: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] suggestion: do not link to www.ocaml.org
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 16:25:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <OOEALCJCKEBJBIJHCNJDAEOMHAAB.vanevery@indiegamedesign.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1BDWqw-0007Xx-00@mail.zedshaw.com>
Zed A. Shaw
>
> You know, as kind of an outsider, I didn't know there was any
> other site for ocaml.
As one recently interested in OCaml, I concur. It took me awhile to
find caml.inria.fr and to realize that it was in fact the canonical
site. From a marketing perspective, the ICFP and the Language Shootouts
are the reasons I became interested in OCaml, there are no other
reasons. A number of other languages have the features, and some have
much better libraries, packages, and industrial provenness. What OCaml
apparently has is performance.
The only thing I intensely dislike about the www.ocaml.org website is
the slogan, "The programming tool of choice for discriminating hackers."
This suggests that OCaml is a toy, used by exploratory geeks who don't
know the value of a dollar. I prefer INRIA's utter blandness to
ocaml.org's championing of the hacker geek ethic.
Don't get me started on the Python Software Foundation's utter inability
to market anything.
Cheers, www.indiegamedesign.com
Brandon Van Every Seattle, WA
"The pioneer is the one with the arrows in his back."
- anonymous entrepreneur
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-14 0:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-13 22:27 Henri DF
2004-04-13 22:43 ` [Caml-list] " Alan Post
2004-04-13 23:01 ` Henri DF
2004-04-13 23:29 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-04-13 22:58 ` [Caml-list] " Zed A. Shaw
2004-04-13 23:25 ` Brandon J. Van Every [this message]
2004-04-14 1:12 ` John Goerzen
2004-04-14 4:32 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-04-14 15:14 ` John Goerzen
2004-04-14 16:28 ` Matt Gushee
2004-04-14 18:16 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-04-14 18:36 ` John Goerzen
2004-04-14 5:34 ` Kenneth Knowles
2004-04-14 6:26 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-04-14 6:32 ` Kenneth Knowles
[not found] ` <20040414070841.GA6062@roke.freak>
2004-04-14 7:32 ` Kenneth Knowles
2004-04-14 11:12 ` skaller
2004-04-14 16:01 ` Kenneth Knowles
2004-04-15 0:32 ` skaller
2004-04-15 5:37 ` Kenneth Knowles
2004-04-13 23:38 ` Karl Zilles
2004-04-13 23:00 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-04-14 15:17 ` Richard Jones
2004-04-14 19:05 ` Xavier Leroy
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