Why OCaml rocks

Why OCaml rocks

[Martin Jambon]

You guys (Brian Hurt, Jon Harrop and whoever is concerned) should change 
the title of your posts, because it is obviously wrong.

A second "Ocaml **cks" in the top 10 Google results is totally 
superfluous. I think even an average PHP programmer would understand that.


Thanks!

Martin

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Re: [Caml-list] Why OCaml rocks

[Robert Fischer]

If people are Googling "Ocaml sucks", they're already gone.

The fact that they're both high on the "Ocaml" results (#2 and #29 at the moment) kinda sucks.
Clearly, we need more quality sites on Ocaml on the interwebs.

BTW, how did Jon get into this?

~~ Robert.

Martin Jambon wrote:
> You guys (Brian Hurt, Jon Harrop and whoever is concerned) should change
> the title of your posts, because it is obviously wrong.
> 
> A second "Ocaml **cks" in the top 10 Google results is totally
> superfluous. I think even an average PHP programmer would understand that.
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Martin
> 
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Re: [Caml-list] Why OCaml rocks

[Matthew William Cox]

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On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:12:07PM -0500, Robert Fischer wrote:
> If people are Googling "Ocaml sucks", they're already gone.
> 
> The fact that they're both high on the "Ocaml" results (#2 and #29 at
> the moment) kinda sucks.  Clearly, we need more quality sites on Ocaml
> on the interwebs.
> 
> BTW, how did Jon get into this?

The article is not about trashing Ocaml as a language. It's about
looking at it *as a user of the language* and seeing how it could be
improved. I agree that it's a healthy thing to do.

It's not necessary, and certainly not healthy, to create a community
that refuses to acknowledge flaws and room for growth in the language
we're trying to nurture. It hinders growth. An open dialogue and a
thoughtful discussion of the issues is the best thing we can do for
ourselves.

Cheers,
Matt

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