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		yawaramin 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jane Street's sneaky retention tactic > techie pushes tool not because it's useful or necessary but because he wants to learn the tool I wouldn't say Yaron Minsky was pushing OCaml because he wanted to 'learn' it. By that time he had already written the most popular PGP key exchange server...in OCaml: https://github.com/SKS-Keyserver/sks-keyserver/graphs/contri...

jxjnskkzxxhx 3 months ago [–]

I didn't say Yaron Minsky pushed OCaml because he wanted to learn it. I said it was because he liked it. Still, the distinction isn't important to the point I was trying to make.

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