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=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL 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 41E1EBC6B for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:37:31 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAAotKUfAbSoIh2dsb2JhbACOXwEBAQgKKQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,357,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="5342695" Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 01 Nov 2007 09:37:30 +0100 X-Envelope-From: oliver@first.in-berlin.de X-Envelope-To: Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id lA18bTVO001373 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:37:29 +0100 Received: (from www-data@localhost) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id lA18bTA7001371 for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:37:29 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: einhorn.in-berlin.de: www-data set sender to oliver@first.in-berlin.de using -f Received: from dslb-088-073-087-150.pools.arcor-ip.net (dslb-088-073-087-150.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.73.87.150]) by webmail.in-berlin.de (IMP) with HTTP for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:37:29 +0100 Message-ID: <1193906249.472990499bcc0@webmail.in-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:37:29 +0100 From: Oliver Bandel To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Google trends References: <200711010102.39348.jon@ffconsultancy.com> In-Reply-To: <200711010102.39348.jon@ffconsultancy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.6 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang_at_IN-Berlin_e.V. on 192.109.42.8 X-Spam: no; 0.00; bandel:01 in-berlin:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 downs:98 oliver:01 oliver:01 caml-list:01 mainstream:06 linux:07 linux:07 rather:08 looks:08 geo:10 ciao:11 Zitat von Jon Harrop : > > 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 Well, I can't see any sky-rocketing there. Also I found no absolute numbers of requests on that page. It rather looks like a gradually decreasing interest with some casual ups and downs. > > 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! :-) I think, when F# will be used more frequently, people instead will ask for F# on Linux and OS-X, instead of switching to OCaml. So I don't think this is worth a "Hooray!". Ciao, Oliver