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bug in "developing applications with objective caml" (english translation)

Jack Andrews
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        Jacques Garrigue
      - Oliver Bandel
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    - Erik de Castro Lopo
      - Jon Harrop
        
        Geoff Wozniak
        
        Jon Harrop
        
        Richard Jones
        
        Oliver Bandel
        
        Geoff Wozniak
        
        Kenneth Knowles
        
        Jack Andrews
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        Paul Snively

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Oliver Bandel <oliver@f...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Re: some comments on ocaml{lex,yacc} from a novice's POV

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:26:16PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 02:49:38PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> > For example, I recently tried to write programs to compute the number of 
> > unique posters per month on the two caml lists.
> 
> Perhaps a case for a specialised language?  Once you've split up the
> mail into monthly archives, something like:
> 
> < mail/caml-list.YYYY.MM formail -s formail -x 'From:' | sort -u | wc -l
[...]

Well, even formail is overhead. :)

Why not using grep for this?! ;-)

Ciao,
   Oliver