On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Daniel Bünzli wrote:

> Le 9 mars 07 à 21:02, Martin Jambon a écrit :
>
>> The Caml mailing list is intended for all users of the Caml implementations 
>> developed at INRIA. The purpose of this list is to share experience, 
>> exchange ideas and code, and report on applications of the Caml language.
>
> I don't see why these topics cannot be discussed here.
>
> I would see the point of a domain specific mailing-list (e.g. web development 
> in ocaml) but ocaml-developer seems like caml-list-2 to me.
>
> Could you perhaps motivate the point of your initiative ?

1) Less traffic
2) Skipping all the unnecessary "language geekiness" stuff

To a newcomer, caml-list looks a lot like a forum for programming 
language researchers, which is cool, but not being able to understand 2/3 
of the messages is kind of intimidating for someone who thought he/she 
knew OCaml.


Martin

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