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Date: | 2007-04-19 (16:50) |
From: | Gilles FALCON <gilles.falcon@o...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] The F#.NET Journal |
Hello, F# comes with a nice IDE, I think another IDE (as eclipse for ie) could help people to come to ocaml. Ocaml tools with Emacs are nice for strong programmer. Just my two cents. Gilles Brian Hurt a écrit : > > > On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Richard Jones wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:06:38PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote: >>> >>> Flying Frog Consultancy just started the F#.NET Journal, an on-line >>> publication composed of articles, example source code and tutorial >>> videos >>> aimed at beginner programmers learning the F# programming language from >>> Microsoft Research: >> [...] >> >> Does F# run on real operating systems? Does it have a full open >> source stack? > > Overall, I see F# as a good thing for Ocaml. OK, it draws some of > it's support from the Ocaml community (John Harrop here being an > obvious example)- thus dilluting the pool of energy from Ocaml, at > least in the short term. But any F# programmer can pick up Ocaml in > short order, and vice versa (not unlike the C#/Java communities). > > But I think were F# will really draw it's people from is outside the > community. It'll draw from the vast horde of C#/VB/C++ Windows > programmers. Draw people from outside the community to inside the > community. And sooner or later many of them are going to start > looking for an F# that runs on Linux/Unix. > > Even if I'm wrong, even if F# is a net loss for Ocaml, I still can't > help viewing F# as a good thing over all. Anything which helps > programmers write code that doesn't *SUCK* is an advantage to us all- > and every programmer coding in F# is a programmer not coding in C#, > VB, or, God help us, C++. Making code proven free of large classes of > bugs, and many other bugs rare indeed is a definate good. And > bluntly, most software- free software as well as proprietary, sucks > large rocks through very small pipettes. > > Just my two cents. > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: > http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list > Archives: http://caml.inria.fr > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs >