On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:36:18PM -0500, Jim Miller wrote:
> What's I think is the interesting point about this discussion is "What are
> the hurdles toward acceptance of any new language, scripting or not, into a
> given community?"  Obviously OCAML and the ML languages have deeply
> penetrated some markets but haven't even dented others.  There have been
> lots of papers, studies, and discussion written on this (
> lambda-the-ultimate.org has many of them archived) so that's probably
> something for a different thread to be read wearing flame-retardant
> underthings.

I'm currently contributing to a 45KLOC C library which I'm sure would
be about 10 times smaller if written in a reasonable language.

Putting aside the obvious cultural resistance to using a sensible
language for this project, there is one technical hurdle: It needs to
compile into a DLL which can be linked to other programs (in C and
other languages).  I can't generate such code using ocamlopt, at least
not without using unsupported out-of-tree extensions.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat