From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Google trends
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:20:39 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1193883639.13326.2.camel@rosella.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711010102.39348.jon@ffconsultancy.com>
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 01:02 +0000, Jon Harrop wrote:
> The number of people searching for OCaml on Google has sky-rocketed since
> Microsoft's announcement that they are productizing F#:
>
> http://www.google.com/trends?q=f%23%2Cocaml&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
>
> I think this is very good news for the OCaml language as it will now have a
> mainstream cousin to cover Windows while OCaml covers Linux and Mac OS X.
> Hooray! :-)
Not so happy though: the libraries are the most important thing,
and will not overlap so well, so that many programs simply won't
run unmodified on both systems.
Most build scripts will also be broken.
--
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-01 2:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-01 1:02 Jon Harrop
2007-11-01 2:20 ` skaller [this message]
2007-11-01 8:37 ` [Caml-list] " Oliver Bandel
2007-11-01 9:31 ` Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)
2007-11-01 10:55 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-01 9:46 ` Richard Jones
2007-11-01 12:00 ` skaller
2007-11-01 12:46 ` Richard Jones
2007-11-01 15:45 ` skaller
2007-11-01 16:31 ` Jon Harrop
2007-11-01 18:12 ` Richard Jones
2007-11-01 19:47 ` Peng Zang
2007-11-02 3:11 ` Jon Harrop
2007-11-02 13:48 ` Lars Nilsson
2007-11-02 15:54 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-01 13:01 ` Brian Hurt
2007-11-01 16:10 ` skaller
2007-11-01 18:05 ` Richard Jones
2007-11-02 3:01 ` skaller
2007-11-02 15:50 ` Jon Harrop
2007-11-02 16:26 ` Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)
2007-11-02 16:07 ` Language trends / Caml popularity (Re: [Caml-list] Google trends) Oliver Bandel
2007-11-01 21:00 ` [Caml-list] Google trends Dario Teixeira
2007-11-03 0:02 ` Florian Weimer
2007-11-02 22:45 ` Florian Weimer
2007-11-03 1:32 ` Jon Harrop
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