From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AB37BBBB for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:02:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k1RB2eBB010814 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:02:40 +0100 Received: from ibm3.cicrp.jussieu.fr (ibm3.cicrp.jussieu.fr [134.157.15.3]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.13.5/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k1RB2dTF083512 ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:02:39 +0100 (CET) X-Ids: 168 Received: from ibm1.cicrp.jussieu.fr (ibm1.cicrp.jussieu.fr [134.157.15.1]) by ibm3.cicrp.jussieu.fr (8.8.8/jtpda/mob-V8) with ESMTP id LAA318656 ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:58:00 +0100 Received: from localhost (fernande@localhost) by ibm1.cicrp.jussieu.fr (8.8.8/jtpda/mob-v8) with ESMTP id MAA766008 ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:02:46 +0100 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:02:45 +0100 (NFT) From: Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons To: Jean-Christophe Filliatre Cc: OCaml Mailing List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] algorithm question In-Reply-To: <17410.54463.981731.409109@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.7.2 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.168]); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:02:40 +0100 (CET) X-Antivirus: scanned by sophie at shiva.jussieu.fr X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 4402DC50.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at shiva.jussieu.fr with ID 4402DC4F.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; pons:01 pons:01 caml-list:01 knuth:01 knuth:01 volunteers:01 algorithm:01 programming:03 fernandez:06 fernandez:06 olivier:07 olivier:07 examples:07 stuff:08 question:11 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 Bonjour, > when I mentioned ML, Knuth simply replied: ``oh, the stuff by Mc > Carthy? I've never been convinced about it...'' I remember having laugh very loud when some one told me that Knuth was looking for volunteers to port his CISC assembly examples of "The Art of computer programming" to a more modern language. And when I went to his homepage to see what modern language he had chosen I discovered it was ... RISC assembly. Diego Olivier