... of the flame war conducted under the thread titled "on the strange weaknss of Graphical User Interface Languages" and in which I assume you wrote what you quoted above. After becoming aware of it, I just skimmed that subthread and also most "Growth of the CAML family of languages" in c.l.l. I've to say (and I say it here and purely for the benefit of those ...

....lang.lisp . Have fun... From: Jon Harrop <usenet@jdh30.plus.com> Subject: Re: Growth of the CAML family of languages Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:29:20 +0000 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID... because I've chosen a metric which is known to correspond to the language concerned (one would need to normalise by some measure of non-...

...: Ken Tilton wrote: Jon Harrop wrote: The recent productization of F# by Microsoft has caused a growth spurt in the CAML family of functional programming languages: http://www.google.com/trends?q=common+lisp%%2Cocaml%%2Cf%%23 Common Lisp is a good comparison because it is in slow...

Jon Harrop wrote: The recent productization of F# by Microsoft has caused a growth spurt in the CAML family of functional programming languages: http://www.google.com/trends?q=common+lisp%%2Cocaml%%2Cf%%23 Common ...: I see quite the same "decline" in another number of languages (which might just indicate a trend away from source (like usenet) ...

Ken Tilton wrote: Jon Harrop wrote: The recent productization of F# by Microsoft has caused a growth spurt in the CAML family of functional programming languages: http://www.google.com/trends?q=common+lisp%%2Cocaml%%2Cf%%23 Common Lisp is a good comparison because it is in slow but ...

Jon Harrop wrote: The recent productization of F# by Microsoft has caused a growth spurt in the CAML family of functional programming languages: http://www.google.com/trends?q=common+lisp%%2Cocaml%%2Cf%%23 Common Lisp is a good comparison because it is in slow but steady decline. Now where is the...

... We've discovered that diversifying into other languages is productive. Hence the moves into F#... easier to make money by contributing to languages like OCaml. Our most successful products are ...one of the most popular functional programming languages on both Ubuntu and Debian, beating ...The future looks bright for functional programming languages! -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy...

... a problem for them? Why not? This kind of scenarios. I've heard that St. Janes uses OCaml - basically inhouse, but you seem to have discovered a new market that is either buying OCaml products intentionally or doesn't care for the implementation language (rather unusual in my experience, but if so, I'd like to understand more about why they are different). Regards -- Markus

... We've discovered that diversifying into other languages is productive. Hence the moves into F#... easier to make money by contributing to languages like OCaml. Our most successful products are ...one of the most popular functional programming languages on both Ubuntu and Debian, beating ...The future looks bright for functional programming languages! -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy...

... don't make a right, yadda yadda NOW WHY THE FUCK AM I HERE???????????????? Sorry. But figure it out, it's not hard, certainly easier than doing a serious project with a one-paradigm language, let alone one that is statically typed. :) Type this: given that I am misbehaving here reflecting an infantile or psychotic or whatever personality, how did I end up on c.l.f just now ...