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 QAA04244; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 16:27:11 +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 QAA04238 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 16:27:09 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from www.image-acquire.com (valkyrie.image-acquire.com [207.71.8.230]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f69ER8P01858 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 16:27:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [128.135.231.199] (nsit-s231-124.uchicago.edu [128.135.231.124]) by www.image-acquire.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA01939; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 09:23:54 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bruce@www.hoult.org Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010709031704.04188ec0@shell16.ba.best.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010709031704.04188ec0@shell16.ba.best.com> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 09:23:48 -0500 To: Chris Hecker , leary@nwlink.com, caml From: Bruce Hoult Subject: Re: [Caml-list] language story on slashdot Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk At 3:33 AM -0700 7/9/01, Chris Hecker wrote: > >Some good mentions of OCaml; perhaps a good place for more? :) > >Can I just ask the somewhat obvious question of whether the slashdot >crowd is the kind of new OCaml users we want to be attracting at >this point? [...] flavor-of-the-month pseudo-programmers Yo Chris, You may be making the mistake of confusing the average poster on /. with the average reader. You can tell this by noticing that the moderaters actually do a pretty good job. Set your filters high and you *can* see something useful. And the good stuff *does* tend to consistently get modded up. Not to be too presumptuous, but I hadn't posted on slashdot for many many months and then for some reason I posted four messages in the last couple of days. They all got a good reception. I mean, cruise over to that ICFP thread and set your filter to 3. There are twelve messages. Now, OK, six of those are attempts at humour, but the other six are all worth reading. Well, three of them are -- the others are *my* three posts, which got modded up to 3, 3, and 4. I also threw one bombshell into the discussion on nuclear rockets being developed by NASA. That one got immediately modded up to 5. -- Bruce ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr