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 3009EBC6B for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 13:00:31 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAABZdKUfAXQInh2dsb2JhbACOYAEBAQgKKQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,358,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="5347848" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 01 Nov 2007 13:00:30 +0100 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lA1C0U4p010782 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 13:00:30 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAABZdKUfLENaHn2dsb2JhbACOYAEBAQEHBAYJCBg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,358,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="3799977" Received: from ipmail03.adl2.internode.on.net ([203.16.214.135]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 01 Nov 2007 13:00:28 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAM5ZKUd5LGK+Wmdsb2JhbAAMjkoBIA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,358,1188743400"; d="scan'208";a="179239603" 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 22:30:25 +1030 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Google trends From: skaller To: Richard Jones Cc: caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <20071101094629.GA28190@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <200711010102.39348.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <20071101094629.GA28190@furbychan.cocan.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:00:24 +1100 Message-Id: <1193918424.6008.2.camel@rosella.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4729BFDE.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 cheer:98 cathedral:98 sourceforge:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 incompatible:01 caml-list:01 contributed:02 languages:03 let:03 thu:05 thu:05 mainstream:06 On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 09:46 +0000, Richard Jones wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:02:39AM +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! :-) > > This is hardly a cause to cheer. The two languages aren't compatible > in any way which is relevant to the real world, and the libraries are > completely different. Microsoft could have contributed valuable > changes back to OCaml, but instead decided to produce their own > incompatible clone. No they couldn't. The Cathedral would never let them. -- John Skaller Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net