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 E5240BC6B for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 13:31:11 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAFrhM0fAXQInh2dsb2JhbACPAQEBAQgKKQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,394,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="19108361" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 09 Nov 2007 13:31:11 +0100 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lA9CVA1a028088 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 13:31:11 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAA7iM0dQRFuw/2dsb2JhbAA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,394,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="4064892" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 09 Nov 2007 13:31:10 +0100 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1IqT0v-0006xD-00 for ; Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:31:09 +0000 Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:31:09 +0000 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Smoke Vector Graphics: source code licenses for sale Message-ID: <20071109123109.GD10893@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <200711041201.10255.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <1194188801.472de001905ce@webmail.in-berlin.de> <1194192721.25159.14.camel@rosella.wigram> <200711081928.11501.alexandre.pilkiewicz@polytechnique.org> <20071108230811.GA10791@furbychan.cocan.org> <1194610589.19355.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1194610589.19355.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4734530E.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; 0100,:01 gerd:01 stolpmann:01 o'caml:01 o'caml:01 haskell:01 smoke:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 graphics:02 languages:03 fri:05 proving:05 vector:05 style:93 On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 01:16:28PM +0100, Gerd Stolpmann wrote: > Before this thread continues in this style: There is nothing wrong with > O'Caml in industry - all languages have their good and bad sides, and > industry knows this. We are currently seeing a very slow adoption by > industrial pioneers. All in all this is encouraging. For speeding this > process up, the most urgent things we need are people who convince their > bosses to try this "new" technology out. Where are all the companies > that jump at every trend, and that want to present themselves as the > earliest adopters of any stuff that is ever released to mankind? - I > think it is the right moment to advertise O'Caml in this way. Make a > trend of it. A trend does not need real arguments (this can come later), > it lives for some time by itself because people don't want to miss it. A small anecdote from a friend of mine who works at $BIG_BANK is that the Jane Street paper[1] has been doing the rounds there and is proving to be quite popular / influential. Rich. [1] From page 23 here http://www.haskell.org/sitewiki/images/0/03/TMR-Issue7.pdf, there is also a standalone document which I can't find now. -- Richard Jones Red Hat