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 CB436BC6E for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 06:15:09 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAO40LkfUnw7UhWdsb2JhbACCOYw3AgEIBAYPEwc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,370,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="5451636" Received: from ptb-relay01.plus.net ([212.159.14.212]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 05 Nov 2007 06:15:09 +0100 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by ptb-relay01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1IouIm-0008Kf-2m for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:15:08 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200711041201.10255.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <1194212381.472e3c1dc861a@webmail.in-berlin.de> <1194233546.27580.4.camel@rosella.wigram> In-Reply-To: <1194233546.27580.4.camel@rosella.wigram> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711050505.43062.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 lacked:01 perl's:01 lablgtk:01 ocaml:01 perl's:01 lablgtk:01 ubuntu:98 frog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 languages:03 library:03 library:03 debian:04 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 I concluded that Perl's popularity is keeping GLArea alive so there isn't too much to worry about LablGTKGL growing out of date.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