]> On Mon, 18 Nov 2003, skaller wrote: [...] > I think Ocaml is very close to mainstream now. [...] Well... depends how you define mainstream I guess. Plenty of professional programmers have never heard of functional programming, to say nothing of O'Caml. And in terms of raw popularity, it certainly seems very far from mainstream. If Google is any judge (it's certainly not perfect, but for order-of-magnitude it'll do), O'Caml isn't even in the "top 30": even if you lump in ML and SML and include all the various spellings, Caml doesn't get even a fifth as many hits for "X programming language" as Scheme. Scheme itself is hardly considered mainstream by J. Random Hacker, being roughly a factor of twenty off Java's Google-measured popularity. http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=MjQpb.92077%24e5.3389981%40news1.tin.it&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dgroup:comp.lang.python%2BMartelli%2BMathematica%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3DMjQpb.92077%2524e5.3389981%2540news1.tin.it%26rnum%3D1 http://tinyurl.com/veuo John ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners