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 TAA28635; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:00:39 +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 TAA28631 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:00:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp018.mail.yahoo.com (smtp018.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.115]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g3IH0bb08207 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:00:37 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from adsl-63-195-80-23.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (HELO aria.yahoo.com) (joelisp@63.195.80.23 with login) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Apr 2002 17:00:36 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020418095406.02a6aec0@pop.mail.yahoo.com> X-Sender: joelisp@pop.mail.yahoo.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:06:56 -0700 To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Charles Martin Subject: [Caml-list] Proselytizing In-Reply-To: <20020418144440.GA27750@kiefer.ai.univie.ac.at> References: <20020418074543.95391.qmail@web11204.mail.yahoo.com> <20020418074543.95391.qmail@web11204.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk >Only a few weeks ago I managed to convert some staunch CL-programming >colleague to OCaml (after one year of merciless proselytizing!). I ran into some old colleagues a while back, to whom I extolled the virtues of OCaml. It turned out that "write it in ML" was a private joke between them, as in, "having trouble with that problem? write it in ML! ha ha ha" They were shocked to discover that I, an inveterate CL/Scheme devotee back in the old days, had gone over to the dark side. By the way, I scanned the new translated OCaml book and I have to say, it is a very impressive piece of work. The publication of this and Benjamin Pierce's new book might help OCaml past the inflection point. Maybe we just need to extol the "disruptive" nature of OCaml :) (http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/020424.html) Charles _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------- 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