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 mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AD9BBC6B for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2007 02:41:47 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAIpuK0fUnw7Wnmdsb2JhbACCOYwxAgEBBwQGKQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,365,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="5399621" Received: from ptb-relay03.plus.net ([212.159.14.214]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 03 Nov 2007 02:41:47 +0100 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by ptb-relay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1Io81B-0008HU-BA; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:41:45 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: Florian Weimer Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Google trends Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 01:32:25 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr References: <200711010102.39348.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <87tzo4s1va.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> In-Reply-To: <87tzo4s1va.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711030132.25812.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 syme:01 dsyme:01 ab-:01 blogs:98 jomo:98 blogs:98 tripled:98 frog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 supported:02 florian:03 languages:03 cambridge:03 On Friday 02 November 2007 22:45, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Jon Harrop: > > The number of people searching for OCaml on Google has sky-rocketed since > > Microsoft's announcement that they are productizing F#: > > I've seen no such announcement. I don't think "Visual Studio > integration" means that it's shipped with the other languages. The Corporate VP for the Microsoft Developer Division, S. Somasegar, announced the formation of a team to take F# forward on October 17th: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/10/17/f-a-functional-programming-language.aspx Don Syme named the first two members, Jomo Fisher and Luke Hoban, of Microsoft's Visual C# product group who are now working on the productization of F#: http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2007/10/17/s-somasegar-on-taking-f-forward.aspx Microsoft subsequently posted two Redmond job advertisements: http://members.microsoft.com/careers/search/details.aspx?JobID=5DF7A6AB-80C5-41CB-9A8D-5B344C33AE1D http://members.microsoft.com/careers/search/details.aspx?JobID=B36FFEB2-4C11-4B9C-9B3F-5B23CC604A7B So the team will have tripled and should increase to 5x its original size soon, moving away from Microsoft Research Cambridge UK and to Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, USA. I believe this will place F# alongside Microsoft technologies like XNA, which are separate downloads but fully supported products. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e