From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA09601; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 22:17:57 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA09445 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 22:17:53 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA04505 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:50:18 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from femail34.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail34.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.24]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f9QFoHv14343 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:50:18 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from homebox ([24.5.132.36]) by femail34.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20011026155011.UREJ15013.femail34.sdc1.sfba.home.com@homebox>; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 08:50:11 -0700 Reply-To: From: "Francois Rouaix" To: "'Dmitry Bely'" , Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Whither the Caml Consortium? Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 08:51:42 -0700 Message-ID: <001f01c15e36$1b754640$ca01a8c0@homebox> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Well, I've stopped working on MMM back in 1997; since then, our friends Jun and Pierre have essentially maintained the source compatible with the latest OCaml distribution. But I wouldn't recommend it for general Web browsing these days. It's only HTTP 1.0/HTML 3.2, with terrible table support. That was fine in 1996, but not today. --f Francois Rouaix -----Original Message----- From: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr [mailto:owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Dmitry Bely Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 7:17 AM To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Whither the Caml Consortium? Cuihtlauac ALVARADO writes: > > Regarding a killer-application in Ocaml to show that Ocaml is best, we have > > to find a program that MANY people need. Just look how difficult it is to > > create a good email program for Linux (Evolution is at last getting ready). > > Such an application could be built using Ocaml instead. It would work, no > > buffer overuns would reduce the number of security glitches. The only > > problem is that almost all killer application has graphical user interfaces, > > and I still haven't seen a good looking Ocaml-program (any pointers?). > > Just a 30 seconds dream : a small, fast and robust web > browser... Wouldn't you like to have a GC in Netscape ? Wouldn't you > like to use powerfull tools able to program a defensive parsing for > all the HTTP/Javascript garbage you can find out there ? Isn'it what > *every* people need ? > > I can dream no other definitive killer app for Ocaml. A Web browser written in OCaml already exists, although its development seems to be frozen: http://pauillac.inria.fr/mmm/ Unfortunately, no Win32 version is there, so I do not know how small, fast and robust it is (and compatible with current Internet standards, I would add myself). Hope to hear from you soon, Dmitry ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr