Wow. Those are some harsh words, Jeff. Honestly, I don't see where you're
coming from with these comments.

What I would tell Brian though is the following: with 6 months of
experience in ocaml, you may not have the ability to sell ocaml and its
functional paradigm to a company that has a preconceived notion of what
programming should be like. You'll encounter some difficulties - the same
as with any language - and without the experience to deal with these
hiccups, it'll be tough to convince your bosses to shift to a different way
of thinking about programming. Tough, but doable.

-Yotam

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:03 PM, jeff tansley <jeff.tansley@btinternet.com>
wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> Simple real advice - forget it - unless you are trying to get yourself
> fired.
> Whatever might be said on this list you will only be adding to what I
> suspect is a bit of a software nightmare. Unless of course you have the
> management power and intellect to tidy this up first but if this were the
> case you wouldn't be mailing this list.
> Just understand the stuff that Yaron points you at and look for another
> appointment.
>
> JBT
>
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> Subject: [Caml-list] Networking Application
>
> Hello All,
>
> I work for a large US engineering firm and I am trying to find a way for
> our
> team to do more with less, due to budgetary cutbacks in our engineering
> center.
>
> With that being said we have an existing java application that is in dire
> need of a rewrite. I have been interested in ML and subsequently OCAML for
> about 6 months and I am now looking for a way to integrate this passion of
> mine into my work life. I see very real benefits from using this language
> at
> work and its also applicable in our use case (we have a single core machine
> with limited resources and I want us to use a cooperative threading library
> like LWT or Async).
>
> So I was wondering if people could point me in the direction of some open
> source projects hosted on github that I can read through and try to emulate
> in my proof of concept, sketch of a redesign that I show my supervisors. I
> appreciate any help and since this is a side project it can be done right,
> without any need to take hacky shortcuts.
>
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