From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id XAA09394; Wed, 26 May 2004 23:27:36 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA09331 for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 23:27:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from outbound28-2.lax.untd.com (outbound28-2.lax.untd.com [64.136.28.160]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i4QLRXEV007048 for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 23:27:34 +0200 Received: from outbound28-2.lax.untd.com (smtp01.lax.untd.com [10.130.24.121]) by smtpout03.lax.untd.com with SMTP id AABAMLC78AEG5K5A for (sender ); Wed, 26 May 2004 14:27:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 8575 invoked from network); 26 May 2004 21:26:30 -0000 Received: from dialup-4.242.15.141.dial1.seattle1.level3.net (HELO vangogh) (4.242.15.141) by smtp01.lax.untd.com with SMTP; 26 May 2004 21:26:30 -0000 From: "Brandon J. Van Every" To: "caml" Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Looking for collaborators on a hobby project Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 14:36:05 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <40B4FC4D.3070408@t-online.de> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-ContentStamp: 10:5:823235281 X-MAIL-INFO: 22a9393579393591cd3509b57dd5e15009a55009d4050914995101 X-UNTD-OriginStamp: CI84cOLHFqh7Zd2QWkwvEFvwyO3T/pIsPQZphDk9MRjQCDuLv+/2C12tXMw3WnXq X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 40B50BC5.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.03; brandon:99 caml-list:01 'hobby':99 beginners:01 beginners:01 pedagogical:01 brandon:99 seattle:99 2004:99 ocaml:01 ruby:02 ruby:02 address:96 wrote:03 entrepreneur:95 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Christian Szegedy wrote: > > [subject: a 'hobby' project] > > The advantage over OCaml would be: easier to learn for > beginners. A strategic question for you: how do you hope to address the needs of beginners if you're only putting a hobbyist level of effort into your project? I doubt you'll ever get anything done that actual beginners will benefit from. It sounds like a theoretical or exploratory exercise. It may be valuable to yourself or someone else, but not to beginners. Beginners are probably better served by Ruby plain and simple. Why do beginners care about type safety or performance? For pedagogical purposes, why do they want to work with something other than 'the standard' version of Ruby? They'd have an entire community of people to answer questions and abundant assurance that everything works. Meanwhile, you are only one guy. Cheers, www.indiegamedesign.com Brandon Van Every Seattle, WA "The pioneer is the one with the arrows in his back." - anonymous entrepreneur --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.691 / Virus Database: 452 - Release Date: 5/26/2004 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners