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From: "Jon Harrop" <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
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Subject: RE: [Caml-list] OCaml vs Ada and/or GUI options

Anthony Tavener:
> The difficulty is making a library that supports every edge-case that
every developer needs (and still falling short).

Absolutely. My advice is to walk before you can run. OCaml is nowhere near
having competitive support for basic features required for modern GUI
programming much less supporting "every edge-case that every developer
needs". Get something modern that you can use first. Worry about Chinese and
speech reading later. :-)

Cheers,
Jon.