On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 18:57 -0400, Brian Hurt wrote:

> 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. 

That's a product of INRIA's Cathedral. There's a door on the
Church where I can pin bug reports.

>  But any F# programmer can pick up Ocaml in short order, and 
> vice versa (not unlike the C#/Java communities).

>From a software engineering viewpoint all we have
is a superficial resemblance. 

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