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 RAA17344; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:24:38 +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 RAA17333 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:24:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from moutvdom00.kundenserver.de (moutvdom00.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.149]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f5FFOZ528417 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:24:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [195.20.224.209] (helo=mrvdom02.schlund.de) by moutvdom00.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 15AvSd-0001JD-00 for caml-list@inria.fr; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:24:35 +0200 Received: from [62.154.173.138] (helo=pc022.bln.elmeg.de) by mrvdom02.schlund.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 15AvRQ-0002IA-00 for caml-list@inria.fr; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:23:20 +0200 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml complexity References: <3B2A0D7B.12E32F11@online.no> <20010615165431.A15839@pauillac.inria.fr> From: Nils Goesche Date: 15 Jun 2001 17:23:14 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20010615165431.A15839@pauillac.inria.fr> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Xavier Leroy writes: (I wrote) > > Earlier, when asked `which language do you use for it?' I used to > > answer `Objective See Ay Em Ell', but people often thought I meant > > `Objective C', then :-) Now I say `Objective Camel'. It means a bit > > more to them than just `Oh-Camel'. Unfortunately, they get the > > impression that it's some obscure object oriented language like > > Smalltalk now, so I add `a functional language'. > > And then it gives them the impression that it's some obscure > functional language like Haskell? :-) :-) Hehe, I am aware of that danger, but I hope that the mental imprint of the popular buzzword `Objective' hasn't completely vanished yet when I say `functional'... Sometimes I said `An ML dialect', but nobody knows what ML is, either (we are all C drones programming embedded systems like PBXes and routers and stuff :-). > > When I typed the URL > > caml.inria.fr into the browser of a British coworker of mine, he > > pointed at the `fr' part and shouted `NO, NO! UNACCEPTABLE!!' :-) > > Meanwhile, Blair is manoeuvering the British to switch to the Euro, > so I'm not too concerned here... Still, you can use www.ocaml.org > instead; Ah, thanks for the hint... > your coworker will like it more, but Tore will like it less. > Not www.caml.org to my great regret, since the caml.org domain is > registered already by the "Cruel Angel Mailing List" (no kidding)... LOL what a shame :-) -- Nils Goesche "Don't ask for whom the tolls." PGP key ID 0x42B32FC9 ------------------- 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