From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72FECBC69 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 18:22:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from orion.metastack.com (orion.metastack.com [80.177.38.218]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l75GMklV017688 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 18:22:47 +0200 Received: from treble (cpc2-cmbg6-0-0-cust535.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [81.107.34.24]) (authenticated bits=0) by orion.metastack.com (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l75G9gBW031342 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 5 Aug 2007 17:09:43 +0100 From: "David Allsopp" To: "OCaml List" References: <46B4485B.7040406@menta.net> <46B454ED.700@philippewang.info><1186226538.14440.105.camel@rosella.wigram><46B48F3C.1040904@menta.net><1186242141.11801.10.camel@rosella.wigram><20070804162135.GA7370@furbychan.cocan.org><1186250087.6025.41.camel@rosella.wigram> <20070804191654.GI23762@furbychan.cocan.org> Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Sorted list Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 17:22:35 +0100 Organization: MetaStack Solutions Ltd. Message-ID: <000c01c7d77c$d5adeb50$6a7ba8c0@treble> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 In-Reply-To: <20070804191654.GI23762@furbychan.cocan.org> Thread-Index: AcfWyqtbCWCDMC90RpyLvcH8+kby7wAr1Z0g X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 46B5F956.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; 0100,:01 recursive:01 o'caml:01 stdlib:01 versioning:01 amusing:01 genius:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 tail:01 spectacles:96 repository:03 perhaps:05 bits:05 linux:07 On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 20:07 +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > Well you don't need to use those bits. I use ExtList and ExtString > mainly. ExtList is underpinned by Obj.magic - its "tail recursive" implementations work by manipulating the internal representation of a list rather than writing "proper" O'Caml (it's a piece of genius and frankly is how the StdLib ought to do it...). > Well, Windows is a world apart. It has no packaging system to speak > of, no versioning, no centralised repository, no installation policies > of note. In other words, it's where Linux was circa 1993. Spoken by someone who sounds like he hasn't used Windows since 1993? :o) My understanding is that in 1993 finding any PC hardware capable of running Linux was the amusing game... rose-tinted spectacles, perhaps? David