From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA23396; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:33:03 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA23476 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:33:02 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from athlon.baretta.com (r-mi214-6a76.tin.it [62.211.4.76]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g5IDX1P15773 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:33:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from baretta.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.baretta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D3DA27246 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:38:46 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3D0F37E6.6000307@baretta.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:38:46 +0200 From: Alessandro Baretta Organization: Baretta srl -- www.baretta.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417 X-Accept-Language: it, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Unix.file_descr -> int ??? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk I just realize I sent the following message only to Jean-Marc Eber, when it was meant to be for the mailing list. Please excuse me. Alex -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Unix.file_descr -> int ??? Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:56:42 +0200 From: Alessandro Baretta Organization: Baretta srl -- www.baretta.com To: Jean-Marc Eber Jean-Marc Eber wrote: > To be clear: I think that the "industrial" users need isn't an endless > extension > of the standard libraries (they cover today many, many needs, I think), but > an easy > integration with the "rest of us" (ole automation, Java, .NET,...). > For us (or, more preciselly, our potential customers), thats really the > _only_ > "bottleneck" with ocaml. I've heard the CEO of a 170 people software company declare: "Our clients don't want no Ocaml stuff! They don't want no technology. They want *real_world* products on *real_world* platforms: COBOL and .NET, that's what they want." No comment. But if Ocaml could somehow "run on .NET", people like the above CEO (an ex-mathematician and IBM researcher, by the way) would be a whole lot more interested in Ocaml. Alex ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners