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 JAA17553; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:30:07 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA17548 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:30:07 +0200 (MET DST) 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 CAA13754 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 02:12:50 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from dsf.foxthompson.net (adsl-63-196-84-93.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [63.196.84.93]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f6A0Cmb14215 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 02:12:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dsf@localhost) by dsf.foxthompson.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f6A0C5S13322; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 17:12:05 -0700 From: dsf@foxthompson.net To: caml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] language story on slashdot References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010709031704.04188ec0@shell16.ba.best.com> Date: 09 Jul 2001 17:12:04 -0700 In-Reply-To: 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 Bruce Hoult writes: > 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 > > 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. I learn many things on Slashdot. I found Ocaml and Bagley's site from comments on Slashdot. I can see how Bagley might be somewhat annoyed by what happened, but I think that on the balance Slashdot does more good than harm. ------------------- 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