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[Caml-list] suggestion: do not link to www.ocaml.org

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From:	Kenneth Knowles <kknowles@b...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] suggestion: do not link to www.ocaml.org

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 10:32:22AM +1000, skaller wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 02:01, Kenneth Knowles wrote:
> 
> > In fact, I took a look at Felix pretty soon after starting up with OCaml.  
> 
> >  If I were in a C++ shop rather than a web shop I'd certainly be
> > lobbying for it. 
> 
> Oh? The cooperative multi-tasking model is particularly 
> well suited to web services. 

I mostly mean that we are an MS-oriented, generally conservative shop where the
most probably *social* move is to get them to use a nicer .Net language.  

Goal: extreme type-safety, powerful data structures
Problem: microsoft addiction and programming conservativism.

Performance is not an issue for us, servers are cheapers than programmers.

Kenn

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