> It's written in an unusual programming language called OCaml, and in a fairly idiosyncratic dialect of it at that. This is of course no problem for a proof of concept meant to support a Ph.D thesis, but for software that's deployed in the field it makes maintenance quite difficult. Not only do we need to be bright enough to understand an algorithm that's literally someone's Ph.D thesis, but we need expertise in obscure programming languages and strange programming customs.
Looking at the code [0], it looks like fairly standard Ocaml. Any particular reason it's difficult to maintain (other than the lack of popularity of FP in general)?
(It looks like the original author of the SKS Keyserver is Yaron Minsky, the guy who convinced Jane Street to use Ocaml.)
Looking at the code [0], it looks like fairly standard Ocaml. Any particular reason it's difficult to maintain (other than the lack of popularity of FP in general)?
(It looks like the original author of the SKS Keyserver is Yaron Minsky, the guy who convinced Jane Street to use Ocaml.)
[0] https://bitbucket.org/skskeyserver/sks-keyserver/src/default...