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 EA0CBBBCA for ; Sat, 10 May 2008 00:34:49 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArsCAPttJEjAXQImiGdsb2JhbACSBgEBAQ8gmR8 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,462,1204498800"; d="scan'208";a="26015323" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 10 May 2008 00:34:49 +0200 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m49MYmtp001337 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Sat, 10 May 2008 00:34:49 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArsCAHluJEhQRFuwiGdsb2JhbACSBgEBAQ8gmSE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,462,1204498800"; d="scan'208";a="10564548" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 10 May 2008 00:34:48 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JubAs-0005iW-2s for caml-list@inria.fr; Fri, 09 May 2008 23:34:46 +0100 Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 23:34:46 +0100 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Why OCaml rocks Message-ID: <20080509223445.GB21613@annexia.org> References: <200805091909.57371.jon@ffconsultancy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200805091909.57371.jon@ffconsultancy.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 4824D189.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 0100,:01 overtaken:01 ocaml:01 predictable:01 compiler:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 functional:02 languages:03 consequence:04 fri:05 modify:05 long:06 red:92 On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 07:09:57PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote: > F# has long since overtaken all other functional languages in terms of > industrial uptake and I have not heard that complaint from anyone. Like > OCaml, it follows simple rules and is predictable as a consequence. Figures to back up this extraordinary claim? (And I don't mean the unverifiable figures of a certain Cambridge-based consultancy). These commercial enterprises better hope they don't need to modify the F# compiler at all, and that MS keep releasing new versions and fixes forever, because the terms of the F# license would prevent them from fixing it themselves (unlike if they'd decided to go with an open source solution). Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat