On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:18 PM, andrey mirtchovski
<mirtchovski@gmail.com>wrote:

> I think that with a bit more work, porting the Ocaml native compiler
> to Plan 9 would give you a bigger benefit than GHC (which is unwieldy)
> or an interpreter such as Hugs. Having a higher-level language in
> which to write native applications will, perhaps, give more people a
> viable reason to explore the system. Ocaml's compiler generates
> high-quality, reasonably fast code and a native port effort would be
> much less than the one for a similar Haskell compiler.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> A perfectly reasonable one too... OCaml may increase in popularity now that
F# is perhaps also picking up momentum, and they're both ML dialects.
Dave