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=0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B6F8BC69 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:53:22 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAJ+TH0fLENaMnmdsb2JhbACOWwIBAQcEBhEY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,326,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="3616626" Received: from ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net ([203.16.214.140]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 25 Oct 2007 03:53:20 +0200 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,326,1188743400"; d="scan'208";a="218063504" Received: from ppp121-44-36-108.lns10.syd7.internode.on.net (HELO [192.168.1.201]) ([121.44.36.108]) by ipmail01.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 25 Oct 2007 11:18:15 +0930 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Which syntax to teach ? From: skaller To: Jon Harrop Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr In-Reply-To: <200710250010.56979.jon@ffconsultancy.com> References: <1193225773.3612.27.camel@Blefuscu> <200710250010.56979.jon@ffconsultancy.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:48:14 +1000 Message-Id: <1193276894.5755.88.camel@rosella.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; syntax:01 0100,:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 distros:01 camlp:01 lablgtk:01 gtk:01 kde:01 slick:98 sourceforge:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 ideally:01 caml-list:01 On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 00:10 +0100, Jon Harrop wrote: > On Wednesday 24 October 2007 23:52:54 Nathaniel Gray wrote: > > I know it seems silly to devote so much energy to debating editors, > > On the contrary, I find it amazing that there is no slick editor written in > OCaml to let people write simple OCaml programs with an integrated top-level, > build system, graphics libraries and packages for the main distros. I think > that would be enormously beneficial for all newbies and could easily be > available for Linux and Mac OS X as well as using the latest ocamlbuild, > camlp4 3.10, LablGTK2 and so on. > > In fact, I would say that OCaml is ideally suited to this task because it > falls in the metaprogramming category! Unfortunately, UI access is the problem. Who wants a GTK editor on Windows? On OSX? On KDE? -- John Skaller Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net