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 mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D2BFBC6B for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 19:05:37 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAO+xKUfAXQImh2dsb2JhbACOaAEBAQgKKQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,359,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="18841589" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 01 Nov 2007 19:05:37 +0100 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lA1I5TxZ016253 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 19:05:36 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAGayKUdQRFuw/2dsb2JhbAA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,359,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="5355492" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 01 Nov 2007 19:05:36 +0100 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1IneQB-0007Lu-00 for ; Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:05:35 +0000 Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 18:05:35 +0000 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Google trends Message-ID: <20071101180535.GA28124@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <200711010102.39348.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <4729CE23.1040707@janestcapital.com> <1193933417.5839.29.camel@rosella.wigram> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1193933417.5839.29.camel@rosella.wigram> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 472A1569.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; fwiw:01 lacked:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 kernel:02 languages:03 solid:95 compiled:04 guess:04 fri:05 thu:05 brian:05 long:06 discussion:06 On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:10:17AM +1100, skaller wrote: > On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 09:01 -0400, Brian Hurt wrote: > > It's weird, and I don't understand it, but there are a lot of people for > > whom Microsoft is a comfort zone- > > Huh? What's weird? Where have you been the last 3 decades? > Microsoft put computers on everyone's desktop, just as > Bill Gates said he would. > > I guess 99% of all desktops run Windows. Quite a lot of > servers run Windows too. Whew, really trying not to be bated on the Microsoft discussion here, but that is a _very_ odd view of history. > I don't hold out much hope: the Open Source community is much > more conservative that commercial developers. After all most OS > software is still written in .. C .. long after MS made C++ > their standard application language .. Open source developers use crap languages, I agree, but switching to C++ would hardly have improved the situation :-) FWIW early versions of the Linux kernel could be and sometimes were compiled as C++ (though still of course written in C) so it's not like people were unaware of the language or lacked solid implementations at that point. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat