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 mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58C11BC6B for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:46:51 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAOs9KUfAXQImh2dsb2JhbACOXwEBAQgKKQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,357,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="3911917" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 01 Nov 2007 10:46:51 +0100 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lA19kUEa003162 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:46:51 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CADw9KUdQRFuw/2dsb2JhbAA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,357,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="3797240" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 01 Nov 2007 10:46:30 +0100 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1InWdB-0000QL-00 for ; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:46:29 +0000 Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:46:29 +0000 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Google trends Message-ID: <20071101094629.GA28190@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <200711010102.39348.jon@ffconsultancy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200711010102.39348.jon@ffconsultancy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 4729A076.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 cheer:98 wrote:01 incompatible:01 caml-list:01 contributed:02 languages:03 thu:05 mainstream:06 explorer:93 clone:06 linux:07 linux:07 red:92 On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:02:39AM +0000, Jon Harrop wrote: > The number of people searching for OCaml on Google has sky-rocketed since > Microsoft's announcement that they are productizing F#: > > http://www.google.com/trends?q=f%23%2Cocaml&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 > > I think this is very good news for the OCaml language as it will now have a > mainstream cousin to cover Windows while OCaml covers Linux and Mac OS X. > Hooray! :-) This is hardly a cause to cheer. The two languages aren't compatible in any way which is relevant to the real world, and the libraries are completely different. Microsoft could have contributed valuable changes back to OCaml, but instead decided to produce their own incompatible clone. The apparent decision to "cover Windows while OCaml covers Linux and Mac OS X" reminds my suspicious mind of the deal which Microsoft proposed to Netscape, to divide the browser market with Internet Explorer on Windows and Netscape on everything else. Thanks, but no thanks. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat