From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D60F7BC6B for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 03:21:37 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAACfVKEfLENaHn2dsb2JhbACOXwEBAQEHBAYJCBg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,354,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="5337267" Received: from ipmail03.adl2.internode.on.net ([203.16.214.135]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 01 Nov 2007 03:21:36 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAHLUKEd5LGK+Wmdsb2JhbAAMjkkBIA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,354,1188743400"; d="scan'208";a="178926431" Received: from ppp121-44-98-190.lns10.syd6.internode.on.net (HELO [192.168.1.201]) ([121.44.98.190]) by ipmail03.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 01 Nov 2007 12:50:41 +1030 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Google trends From: skaller To: Jon Harrop Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr In-Reply-To: <200711010102.39348.jon@ffconsultancy.com> References: <200711010102.39348.jon@ffconsultancy.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:20:39 +1100 Message-Id: <1193883639.13326.2.camel@rosella.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 sourceforge:01 wrote:01 overlap:01 caml-list:01 thu:05 mainstream:06 linux:07 john:08 scripts:09 felix:09 felix:09 geo:10 libraries:11 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 Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net