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 RAA26911; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:21:51 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA11782 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:21:49 +0100 (MET) Received: from smtp2.cswv.com (smtp2.cswv.com [4.17.129.20]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id fADGLm528387 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:21:49 +0100 (MET) Received: from exchange1.cswv.com ([10.2.3.9]) by smtp2.cswv.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:21:38 -0500 Received: by exchange1.cswv.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:26:04 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Krishnaswami, Neel" To: Caml Subject: Re: Receptive Tool Vendors (was: Re: [Caml-list] Jihad) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:26:03 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk David Fox [mailto:dsfox@cogsci.ucsd.edu] wrote: > "Eric Newhuis" writes: > > > > Am I wrong? What is the current state of functional > > programming language acceptance? > > I would say it is low world wide. As a matter of fact, many of the > engineers in the U.S. who are unaware of functional programming are > foreigners! I'm being facetious, but I think that injecting > nationality into this discussion is unhelpful and annoying. Locale matters somewhat, I'd think. I say this because I live in Boston, and the MIT/Lisp connection is somewhat felt even now. Mostly, in the sense that startups are able to get ahold of Lisp hackers who gripe about how defective Java is. :/ Presumably the same is true in and around Stanford. I guess the Lelisp effort morphed into Caml, so perhaps the situation is better in France? Incidentally, does anyone have a pointer to how extensional polymorphism enables typesafe marshalling? I have to confess that I can't figure that out -- how would I use it to go about writing a safe equivalent of Lisp's READ function? -- Neel Krishnaswami neelk@cswcasa.com ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr