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 RAA22419; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:16:18 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA22429 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:16:16 +0100 (MET) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from opus.davidb.org (66-27-72-19.san.rr.com [66.27.72.19]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h2BGGFX13804 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:16:15 +0100 (MET) Received: from davidb by opus.davidb.org with local (Exim 3.31 #1 (Debian)) id 18smQG-0006Mx-00; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 08:16:12 -0800 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 08:16:12 -0800 From: David Brown To: Guillaume Marceau Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity Message-ID: <20030311161612.GB24371@opus.davidb.org> References: <200303111023.LAA09578@pauillac.inria.fr> <1047392843.16158.2192.camel@anquetil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1047392843.16158.2192.camel@anquetil> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 guillaume:01 strive:99 offsets:01 productive:01 ocaml:01 mainstream:01 dave:03 wrote:03 davidb:08 i've:09 something:09 david:09 tue:09 language:10 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:27:18AM -0500, Guillaume Marceau wrote: > We could strive to find (or develop) something ocaml can do that cannot > be done with any other mainstream language. Or, alternatively, something > that is an order or two faster in ocaml than in any other language. So > easy in fact, that the time time saved on a single project offsets the > time cost of learning the rudiments ocaml [*]. Almost everything I've done in ocaml was an order or two faster to develop in ocaml than it would have been in another language. I don't think I was at all that productive while learning ocaml, though. Dave ------------------- 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