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 VAA26660; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:43:05 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA26662 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:43:04 +0100 (MET) Received: from amber.ccs.neu.edu (amber.ccs.neu.edu [129.10.116.51]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h2AKh3f17378 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:43:03 +0100 (MET) Received: from denali.ccs.neu.edu (denali.ccs.neu.edu [129.10.116.200]) by amber.ccs.neu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB0426B443; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:43:02 -0500 (EST) Received: by denali.ccs.neu.edu (Postfix, from userid 215) id EF30B13EB3; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:43:01 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity To: graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz (=?iso-8859-1?q?Graham=20Guttocks?=) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:43:01 -0500 (EST) Cc: caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <20030306232731.7374.qmail@web10305.mail.yahoo.com> from "=?iso-8859-1?q?Graham=20Guttocks?=" at Mar 07, 2003 12:27:31 PM Reply-To: steck@ccs.neu.edu X-Face: $K;!}gfR*UlL{MBaB*P%P==a_0%6QpYDNSH}P9}b+q5l6Z MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20030310204301.EF30B13EB3@denali.ccs.neu.edu> From: steck@ccs.neu.edu (Paul Steckler) X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 python:01 ocaml:01 caml:01 syntax:02 age:96 wrote:03 derived:05 difficult:07 certainly:09 perhaps:09 something:09 language:10 isn't:11 8859:87 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk =?iso-8859-1?q?Graham=20Guttocks?= wrote: > Any ideas why OCaml isn't more well known? Is it just because the > language is not as old as something like Python, or perhaps because > the syntax is more difficult to learn? It's certainly not a question of age. OCaml is derived from the Caml language, developed back in the 1980's. -- Paul ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners