On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Michael Vanier wrote:

> Change takes time.  I think chasing after industry acceptance of ocaml is
> the wrong strategy.

 It already accepted functional programming. Look at what Microsoft 
Research have done - isn't them represent the industry?

> This approach has worked well for python,
> and I think it will work well for ocaml as well.

 Python is treated by industry as a "new, better Smalltalk".
There is no such a way for functional programming - Lisp always was
a marginal approach.



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