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Estimating the size of the ocaml community
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Date: | 2005-02-03 (18:59) |
From: | ronniec95@l... |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Estimating the size of the ocaml community |
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 07:06:30PM +0100, Thomas Fischbacher wrote: > snip... > > Anyway, this leaves us with a very interesting question: how many people > actually do believe in the value of Ocaml? I, for myself, use it whenever snip... > I use Ocaml at work for writing test harnesses for our 'real' applications that are in C++/Java. Perhaps a special case, but our main tools are distributed servers (based on middleware messaging) that perform various pricing calculations. Using the native C interface for themessaging combined with the correctness guaranteed by doing things in a purely functional manner, gives us a prototype, a test harness and a correctly implemented 'real' app typically quicker than writing the whole thing in C++ first and then finding out certain assumptions are completely wrong! Of course it helps me become more proficient at Ocaml too :) Ronnie