From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA01406 for caml-redist; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 19:59:35 +0200 (MET DST) 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 TAA18997 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 19:01:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from suburbia.net (suburbia.net [203.4.184.1]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA07199 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 19:01:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by suburbia.net (Postfix, from userid 110) id 196CF6C4C1; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 03:01:21 +1000 (EST) Sender: weis To: Xavier Leroy Cc: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Subject: Re: Objective Caml 3.00 released References: <20000425152615.25958@pauillac.inria.fr> Cc: proff@iq.org From: Julian Assange Date: 28 Apr 2000 03:01:20 +1000 In-Reply-To: Xavier Leroy's message of "Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:26:15 +0200" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Big Bend) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Xavier Leroy writes: > Brought to you by the Easter bunny: Objective Caml version 3.00. I'd like to personally thank the ocaml team. I truly appreciate your work. It brings me happiness and is catalytic in my bringing happiness to others. And to Xavier, don't take Max's whinging to heart. It seems to be imbedded in his character. His posts infuriate me too, but it wiser to shrug the sholders, move on and keep out of the mud. Perception and cultural management of project mailinglists is extremely important in developing a project community. This is something that haskell.org have really done right. Haskell mailinglists have a general warm, friendly tone that is highly conductive to discourse and community. The moderation of caml-list tends to detract from this sense of community and the complaining tone of Max's posts do not help. However the correct anti-dote is to rebalance by injection of unflappable warmth in the face of every adversity, because like it or not, FP programmers are human beings and associate tone with substance and attractive characters with attractive ideas. Btw, the ICFP99 write up had perfect tone. Nicely done. Cheers, Julian.