From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F9B3BC88 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 19:59:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j13IxF28019023 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 19:59:15 +0100 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 TAA19613 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 19:59:15 +0100 (MET) Received: from cradle.home.net (chowdhury95.demon.co.uk [80.177.9.225]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j13IxEP3019016 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 19:59:15 +0100 Received: from ucacruc by cradle.home.net with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CwmGx-00009p-JG; Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:04:11 +0000 Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 19:04:11 +0000 From: ronniec95@lineone.net To: Thomas Fischbacher Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Estimating the size of the ocaml community Message-ID: <20050203190411.GA606@cradle> References: <891bd33905020213315a2ebb18@mail.gmail.com> <8008871f05020213362d21ba87@mail.gmail.com> <000f01c50971$baad4840$0100a8c0@mshome.net> <1107403128.32586.223.camel@pelican.wigram> <20050203173556.4acec1c5.ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Sender: X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 42027483.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 42027482.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; lineone:01 caml-list:01 ocaml:01 wrote:01 ocaml:01 'real':01 middleware:01 'real':01 ...:98 ...:98 quicker:98 native:02 purely:02 snip:02 snip:02 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO, FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,NO_REAL_NAME autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 07:06:30PM +0100, Thomas Fischbacher wrote: > snip... > > Anyway, this leaves us with a very interesting question: how many people > actually do believe in the value of Ocaml? I, for myself, use it whenever snip... > I use Ocaml at work for writing test harnesses for our 'real' applications that are in C++/Java. Perhaps a special case, but our main tools are distributed servers (based on middleware messaging) that perform various pricing calculations. Using the native C interface for themessaging combined with the correctness guaranteed by doing things in a purely functional manner, gives us a prototype, a test harness and a correctly implemented 'real' app typically quicker than writing the whole thing in C++ first and then finding out certain assumptions are completely wrong! Of course it helps me become more proficient at Ocaml too :) Ronnie