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 TAA05826; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 19:00:42 +0100 (MET) 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 TAA05596 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 19:00:41 +0100 (MET) Received: from cmailg5.svr.pol.co.uk (cmailg5.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.195.175]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id hAII0e127070 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 19:00:40 +0100 (MET) Received: from modem-736.arcanine.dialup.pol.co.uk ([217.135.23.224]) by cmailg5.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AMA9X-00059r-2u for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:00:39 +0000 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:00:37 +0000 (GMT) From: John J Lee X-X-Sender: john@alice To: Caml Mailing List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] GC and file descriptors In-Reply-To: <20031118120517.GA881@exomi.com> Message-ID: References: <1069092899.17437.58.camel@pelican> <20031118120517.GA881@exomi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 unwashed:01 admittedly:01 descriptors:01 nov:01 contact:96 wrote:03 reasonably:04 lee:94 impression:06 languages:06 java:07 difficult:07 advocates:07 programming:07 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote: [...] > It's difficult for programming languages to be judged on merit. People > who are reasonably unbiased and know enough to be able to make informed > comparisons aren't likely to consider any language or paradigm the > "one true way". But not many people listen to advocates who don't claim > that their solution is perfect. [...] I'm surprised. I've had the impression (with little contact with the unwashed Java crowd, admittedly ;-) that being pigeonholed as "religious" is the major risk in evangelizing any programming language. John ------------------- 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