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 KAA05404; Wed, 5 May 2004 10:11:53 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f 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 KAA04829 for ; Wed, 5 May 2004 10:11:51 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.203]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i458BmSH002216 for ; Wed, 5 May 2004 10:11:50 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.200] (ppp116-155.lns1.syd2.internode.on.net [150.101.116.155]) by smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i458Bak2032430; Wed, 5 May 2004 17:41:42 +0930 (CST) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Common IO structure From: skaller Reply-To: skaller@users.sourceforge.net To: Yamagata Yoriyuki Cc: ben@socialtools.net, vsilyaev@mindspring.com, caml-list In-Reply-To: <20040505.075919.41627374.yoriyuki@mbg.ocn.ne.jp> References: <20040503061212.GA64216@server.vns.oc.ca.us> <40980BA2.1010102@socialtools.net> <20040505.075919.41627374.yoriyuki@mbg.ocn.ne.jp> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1083744695.20722.1056.camel@pelican.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-4) Date: 05 May 2004 18:11:36 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4098A1C4.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 sourceforge:01 2004:99 yamagata:01 yoriyuki:01 python:01 frontc:01 swig:01 frontc:01 python:01 9660:01 glebe:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 gtk:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 08:59, Yamagata Yoriyuki wrote: > BTW, I think this is one of the problems of OCaml community. We do > not know each other's work well, while too much being bombarded by > hypes from Java/Perl/Python/C#... Perhaps .. but .. recent post to Felix language list: "The excellent Cil frontc C parser, described here: http://manju.cs.berkeley.edu/cil/ has been built into Felix as an initial step in Felix being able to process C library header files *directly* without binding specifications or use of an external tool like SWIG." OK, so Ocaml community doesn't know other's work so well but here is some more information: It took 4 hours ONLY to complete the repackaging and Cil's frontc parsed the (huge and arcane) gtk+2.0 header without an error, pretty printing the parse tree in a neat format. Now try doing that with "Java/Perl/Python/C#" not to mention C++ or ... oh no .. C .. (OUCH!) -- John Skaller, mailto:skaller@users.sf.net voice: 061-2-9660-0850, snail: PO BOX 401 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia Checkout the Felix programming language http://felix.sf.net ------------------- 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/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners