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 LAA13432; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:23:52 +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 LAA21481 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:23:51 +0100 (MET) Received: from post.webmailer.de (natsmtp01.webmailer.de [192.67.198.81]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h2DANpf04518 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:23:51 +0100 (MET) Received: from pD952EE81.dip.t-dialin.net (pD952EE81.dip.t-dialin.net [217.82.238.129]) by post.webmailer.de (8.12.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id h2DANm30011121 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:23:50 +0100 (MET) From: Michael Schuerig Organization: - To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:23:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200303130035.39823.schuerig@acm.org> <3E703B10.1040403@baretta.com> In-Reply-To: <3E703B10.1040403@baretta.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303131123.48517.schuerig@acm.org> X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 alessandro:01 baretta:01 weber:99 gui:01 bugfix:01 week's:99 ocaml:01 necessarily:02 coding:03 wrote:03 enterprise:94 anyway:05 i'm:07 www:91 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Thursday 13 March 2003 09:02, Alessandro Baretta wrote: > Michael Schuerig wrote: > > On Thursday 13 March 2003 00:13, Martin Weber wrote: > > > > [database + GUI variety enterprise applications] > > I've been working on this kind of software for a couple of years > > and can't say that I'm particularly attracted to it. To be sure, I > > recognize that there are interesting aspects to it, but it's not > > what I myself find interesting. Also, as I said before, I don't see > > that OCaml provides a decisive advantage for *this* kind of > > software. > > Actually, I must say that it does provide THE decisive > advantage over all other tools I reviewed, at least in terms > of Web applications. After developing the Xcaml sytem, which > is currently on Sourceforge--and wanting a little bugfix > update, coming up--my company is now able to release a new > custom "enterprise application" to the customer in more or > less one week's time. I'm not familiar with the kind of project that can be done from start to finish that short a time. I just can't say how common they are. But anyway, great if OCaml can give such a boost, there. My experience is from projects eating up several person years of effort. There coding speed isn't necessarily the limiting factor. Michael -- Michael Schuerig All good people read good books mailto:schuerig@acm.org Now your conscience is clear http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --Tanita Tikaram, "Twist In My Sobriety" ------------------- 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