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 DAA00962; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 03:09:34 +0200 (MET DST) 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 DAA01322 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 03:09:27 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from staff.cs.usyd.edu.au (staff.cs.usyd.edu.au [129.78.8.1]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with SMTP id f5919ML01051 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 03:09:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from hons.cs.usyd.edu.au. by staff.cs.usyd.edu.au.; Sat, 09 Jun 2001 11:09:12 +1000 Received: from localhost (mrak@localhost) by hons.cs.usyd.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA23656 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 11:09:11 +1000 X-Authentication-Warning: hons.cs.usyd.edu.au: mrak owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 11:09:11 +1000 (EST) From: Mark Wotton cc: caml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml complexity In-Reply-To: <20010608174349.A15851@jean> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 leary@nwlink.com wrote: > Excellent points, and I'm inclined to agree, but I'd like to actually be > able to someday get a job using OCaml, ML, et al. :) > > Search on DICE.com... out of 70000+ jobs nationwide (USA): > > caml 0 > sml 19 (apparently none mean Standard Meta Language, so really: 0 ) > haskell 6 > lisp 16 > python 146 > PHP 155 > smalltalk 231 > perl 426* > java 10339 > C++ 18638 > > * probably safe to add in most of the 743 unix system admin jobs, plus some > other portion of the 926 unix quality assurance jobs. > > I may as well try to get a programming job using Latin. I suspect many of the jobs done with Ocaml occur when the customer doesn't really care how the system is implemented as long as it works. I guess the reason this doesn't happen more often is a self-reinforcing one: if the system ever needs maintenance, the customer's unlikely to be happy about it being in a "marginal" language. Mark ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr