From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: "Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@indiegamedesign.com>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] OCaml growing pains
Date: 13 Aug 2004 16:05:54 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1092377154.29139.126.camel@pelican.wigram> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OOEALCJCKEBJBIJHCNJDEEGCHGAB.vanevery@indiegamedesign.com>
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 07:30, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> I don't think so. I think it shows where the major players are at in
> their thinking and tastes. OCaml is not this popular language, so why
> should we assume its major players know best about how to grow it?
I think you need to consider that the INRIA team's goals
are closer to 'showing it is possible for a well typed
functional language developed using theory to actually
also compile fast code fast' rather than 'taking over
from other industrial languages'.
Ocaml is great for writing language translators.
The *obvious* use for it for a game developer
is to write a game scripting language in it --
rather than try to write games directly in Ocaml.
That way you bypass all the problems, and get to
say how great Ocaml is for writing translators with :)
Oh yeah, did I mention before I've spent 5 years developing
such a tool already .. ?
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-11 4:45 [Caml-list] Who controls INRIA mailserv filters? Brandon J. Van Every
2004-08-11 6:53 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2004-08-11 20:29 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-08-11 21:22 ` don groves
2004-08-11 21:26 ` don groves
2004-08-12 7:36 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-08-12 7:50 ` Sven Luther
2004-08-12 8:28 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2004-08-12 9:22 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-08-12 9:28 ` Xavier Leroy
2004-08-12 12:59 ` [Caml-list] OCaml growing pains Brandon J. Van Every
2004-08-12 14:58 ` Mikhail Fedotov
2004-08-12 21:30 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-08-13 6:05 ` skaller [this message]
2004-08-13 7:07 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-08-13 8:52 ` Mikhail Fedotov
[not found] <20040812141309.GA19858@quick.recoil.org>
2004-08-12 20:48 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-08-12 23:46 ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2004-08-13 5:43 ` Brandon J. Van Every
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