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 NAA07347; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:13:14 +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 NAA07160 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:13:13 +0200 (MET DST) 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 DAA00854 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 03:19:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from dsf.net (adsl-63-196-84-93.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [63.196.84.93]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f591J3L01110 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 03:19:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dsf@localhost) by dsf.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f591InA11937; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 18:18:49 -0700 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml complexity References: <20010607015821.B11344@jean> <002c01c0ef7f$e154f3e0$5d26883e@baby> <20010608024102.A13672@jean> <003601c0f016$7ac12940$a00bfea9@baby> <20010608154623.A15375@jean> From: David Fox Date: 08 Jun 2001 18:18:49 -0700 In-Reply-To: leary@nwlink.com's message of "Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:46:23 -0700" Message-ID: X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk To follow up on my previous post, which hasn't shown up here yet, the advantage of a really popular language is that the libraries have been thoroughly hammered by users. In contrast, there are quite a few libraries for Ocaml, but typically I pick one up and start using it and quickly run into bugs. Any feature the author isn't using is likely to need work. This is somewhat annoying to me, and quite disconcerting to a less experienced programmer. I'm just saying that popularity is a good thing for a programming language. ------------------- 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