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 XAA27703; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 23:46:05 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA27513 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 23:46:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g96Lk3527974; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 23:46:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from clipper.ens.fr (clipper-gw.ens.fr [129.199.1.22]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id g96Lk3B45636 ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 23:46:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (douet@localhost) by clipper.ens.fr (8.12.3/jb-1.1) id g96Lk2MA018438 ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 23:46:02 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 23:46:02 +0200 (MET DST) From: Florian Douetteau Reply-To: Florian Douetteau To: Daniel de Rauglaudre cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Threats on future of Camlp4 In-Reply-To: <20021006230340.H20005@verdot.inria.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Daniel de Rauglaudre wrote: > The problem, the serious problem, is that the direction refuses that. > Because of you, users, of course, and I understand that. But try to > explain that to my imagination: sorry, inside a constraint to work > inside a system who considers my work as a waste of time, I am blocked, > I cannot have ideas. Research is a creative action, I am not a robot. > I am an human being and I cannot work in any conditions. The people who say that your work is "a waste of time" may indeed mean that it's cool, in their own words. The whole research activity is a "waste of time", to some extent :) "waste of time": something that one does for fun and not for money, in any way. About camlp4, i would like a basic version of camlp4 integrated with the basic distribution, and a camlp4-ext package available to power users, with extensions, an alternative syntax etc .. -- Florian, trolling mood ------------------- 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