From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Industry looks for commercial OCaml support?
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 05:05:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711050505.43062.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1194233546.27580.4.camel@rosella.wigram>
On Monday 05 November 2007 03:32, skaller wrote:
> Perl is dead... maybe *because* it lacked commercial support
> as a language.
Do you mean Perl's use in industry has declined or that it has lost market
share even among free software languages?
We had an interesting discussion about the choice of GL library that underpins
LablGTKGL on the LablGTK mailing list a while back. According to the Debian
package popularity contest, Perl (and OCaml) programmers use the
arguably-deprecated GLArea library but other (primarily Ruby) programmers use
the newer but arguably-worse GLExt library. I concluded that Perl's
popularity is keeping GLArea alive so there isn't too much to worry about
LablGTKGL growing out of date.
If Perl is in decline then maybe LablGTK should move on to GLExt. Looking at
the Ubuntu package popularity contest now, GLExt is 5x more popular than
GLArea (33k vs 6.4k installations).
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-05 5:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-04 12:01 Smoke Vector Graphics: source code licenses for sale Jon Harrop
2007-11-04 15:06 ` [Caml-list] " Oliver Bandel
2007-11-04 16:12 ` skaller
2007-11-04 16:48 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-04 17:45 ` skaller
2007-11-04 21:29 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-04 17:47 ` David Allsopp
2007-11-04 21:25 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-04 16:58 ` Industry looks for commercial OCaml support? Oliver Bandel
2007-11-04 17:52 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-11-04 21:39 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-05 3:32 ` skaller
2007-11-05 3:58 ` OT: Commercial Support and Programming Languages Robert Fischer
2007-11-05 5:04 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-11-07 15:55 ` Alan Falloon
2007-11-07 16:07 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-11-07 16:35 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-07 16:41 ` Jon Harrop
2007-11-07 17:16 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-07 18:46 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-11-07 19:28 ` Richard Jones
2007-11-05 7:22 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-11-05 5:05 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2007-11-04 18:29 ` [Caml-list] Smoke Vector Graphics: source code licenses for sale Vincent Hanquez
2007-11-08 18:28 ` Alexandre Pilkiewicz
2007-11-08 19:09 ` Luc Maranget
2007-11-08 20:24 ` Alexandre Pilkiewicz
2007-11-08 20:53 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-08 23:04 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-08 19:14 ` Brian Hurt
2007-11-08 23:08 ` Richard Jones
2007-11-09 12:16 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-11-09 12:31 ` Richard Jones
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