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=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E908BC0A for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 21:35:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pih-relay04.plus.net (pih-relay04.plus.net [212.159.14.131]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l4NJZa3t029269 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 21:35:36 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by pih-relay04.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1HqwcS-0000Fo-4L for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Wed, 23 May 2007 20:35:36 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Teaching bottomline, part 3: what should improve. Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 20:29:56 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <1179871823.6966.78.camel@Blefuscu> <200705230039.29659.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <20070523185428.GA32681@furbychan.cocan.org> In-Reply-To: <20070523185428.GA32681@furbychan.cocan.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705232029.56431.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 46549788.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 fsharp:01 frog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 linux:06 linux:06 teaching:07 suspect:08 think:12 products:86 ltd:86 should:13 should:13 david:14 On Wednesday 23 May 2007 19:54:28 Richard Jones wrote: > ... he should avoid the Microsoft lock-in ... Then he should not be using Microsoft Windows. I think Linux users should use OCaml and Windows users should use F#. Anything else is just perverted. I suspect the reality is that both Windows and zero-budget have been imposed upon David, which is simply insane because Windows is a very expensive commercial platform and the quality of free software on Windows is far below that on Linux. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. The F#.NET Journal http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/fsharp_journal/?e