Re: When functional languages can be accepted by industry?

From: Max Skaller (maxs@in.ot.com.au)
Date: Thu Apr 20 2000 - 03:52:57 MET DST

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    Vitaly Lugovsky wrote:
    >
    > On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Francois Pottier wrote:
    >
    > > May I advocate Jean-Christophe Filliātre's excellent literate
    > > programming tool, ocamlweb?
    > >
    > > http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/ocamlweb/
    > >
    > > It nicely turns your O'Caml source code into a TeX document,
    > > including an identifier index. Comments are expected to contain
    > > TeX source.
    >
    > But stupid "industry" don't like TeX. :(
    > They wants HTML or somthing like that. Is there any HTML output
    > formatter for ocamlweb? Industry knows nothing about literate
    > programming, as well as about many other progressive technologies.

    Industry is not stupid, it is simply governed by different motives.
    I'm using

            a) ocaml -- an advanced programming language
            b) interscript -- an advanced literate programming tool

    in my job. 

    -- 
John (Max) Skaller at OTT [Open Telecommications Ltd]
mailto:maxs@in.ot.com.au      -- at work
mailto:skaller@maxtal.com.au  -- at home

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