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 PAA05951; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:14:26 +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 PAA06262 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:14:25 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mg.ihep.su (mg.ihep.su [194.190.161.38]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g7UDEPD17635 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:14:25 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by mg.ihep.su (Postfix, from userid 65436) id B6FEEB53ED; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 17:14:24 +0400 (MSD) Received: from ontil.ihep.su (ontil.ihep.su [194.190.161.63]) by mg.ihep.su (Postfix) with ESMTP id E03B6B53E4; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 17:14:23 +0400 (MSD) Received: from localhost (vsl@localhost) by ontil.ihep.su (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7UDDhq02544; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 17:13:43 +0400 Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 17:13:43 +0400 (MSD) From: Vitaly Lugovsky To: Michael Vanier Cc: , Subject: Re: [Caml-list] objective caml and industry In-Reply-To: <200208292257.g7TMvrJ10800@orchestra.cs.caltech.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Michael Vanier wrote: > Change takes time. I think chasing after industry acceptance of ocaml is > the wrong strategy. It already accepted functional programming. Look at what Microsoft Research have done - isn't them represent the industry? > This approach has worked well for python, > and I think it will work well for ocaml as well. Python is treated by industry as a "new, better Smalltalk". There is no such a way for functional programming - Lisp always was a marginal approach. ------------------- 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