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=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52326BC6B for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:01:28 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAA0o8kbAXQInlGdsb2JhbACOFQEBAQEHBAYHCA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.20,279,1186351200"; d="scan'208";a="1469548" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 20 Sep 2007 17:02:52 +0200 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l8KF26Ki002304 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:02:07 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAA0o8kbLENaMnmdsb2JhbACOFQEBAQEHBAYPGA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.20,279,1186351200"; d="scan'208";a="16483189" Received: from ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net ([203.16.214.140]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 20 Sep 2007 17:02:49 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAO8l8kZ5LHvc/2dsb2JhbAAM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.20,279,1186324200"; d="scan'208";a="194730802" Received: from ppp121-44-123-220.lns10.syd6.internode.on.net (HELO [192.168.1.201]) ([121.44.123.220]) by ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 21 Sep 2007 00:32:43 +0930 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: [ANN] coThreads 0.10 From: skaller To: Matthew Hannigan Cc: Zheng Li , caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <20070920104420.GB25394@localhost.localdomain> References: <87lkb5fe3f.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr> <87sl5d8cgd.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr> <46F174D9.5060900@ujf-grenoble.fr> <877imm2z7h.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr> <1190249430.6642.1.camel@rosella.wigram> <20070920142938.d48552f2.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> <1190272316.23116.34.camel@rosella.wigram> <20070920175233.a510630b.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> <87abrhka16.fsf@pps.jussieu.fr> <1190284989.6770.28.camel@rosella.wigram> <20070920104420.GB25394@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:02:42 +1000 Message-Id: <1190300562.6036.0.camel@rosella.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 46F28B6E.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml's:01 readline:01 readline:01 0.10:98 20,:98 ffau:98 sourceforge:01 gpl:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 python:03 btw:03 thu:05 thu:05 On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 20:44 +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 08:43:09PM +1000, skaller wrote: > > Another *famous* example is 'readline()', the code that > > does line editing for bash. Why is Ocaml's top level > > so crappy, with no editing? Because of readline()'s GPL > > Surely that's not a good reason anymore; there are non-GPL > workalikes to readline(). Well one might ask Inria why they don't use it? [BTW: Python does, yet some maintains FFAU licence] -- John Skaller Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net