From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6407BBAF for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:50:19 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArMAACIaL0uNGkAPkWdsb2JhbACECowVizMBAQEBCQsKBxMFqzWOJIEvgi1SBA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,431,1257116400"; d="scan'208";a="52600705" Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.64.15]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 21 Dec 2009 15:50:19 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A0C778A32D6 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:50:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (deliver.uni-koblenz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 20388-02 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:50:15 +0100 (CET) X-CHKRCPT: Envelopesender vrfy feucht@uni-koblenz.de Received: from [192.168.1.34] (dslb-094-221-126-221.pools.arcor-ip.net [94.221.126.221]) (using SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A1F178A33B8 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:50:15 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] general question, was Re: OCaml is broken From: Philip To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr In-Reply-To: <8D2436E9-A41B-48D4-B844-A82E57D47CA2@pulsschlag.net> References: <4B2D2BC1.6020204@msu.edu> <200912200443.57698.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <200912201938.06729.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <20091221152631.35b3a2eb@pbmiha.malagasy.com> <8D2436E9-A41B-48D4-B844-A82E57D47CA2@pulsschlag.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:50:15 +0100 Message-ID: <1261407015.2425.43.camel@io> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at uni-koblenz.de X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 0100,:01 planing:01 ocaml:01 extensively:01 beginner's:01 bug:01 2009:98 beginners:01 wrote:01 compile:01 caml-list:01 caml-list:01 dependency:01 bin:01 On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 15:19 +0100, Keyan wrote: > Hi, > > i have a large project written in C++, for which i am planing to write add-ons and tools in ocaml, e.g. different tools to analyse my code (dependency stuff), an interpreter for a script-language i plan to include, etc, etc. form my time at the uni i remembered that ocaml allows to compile libraries which can be included in c/c++ program, and i know people who use it extensively in other projects. therefore, i decided to give ocaml a try. i like functional programming, and my first steps with ocaml are very promising. > > following this discussion, i am not so sure anymore, if ocaml is a good decision. may be i got this discussion wrong, but if ocaml is dying out, i might have to look for another functional programming language to use with my project. > Functional programming languages will never become mainstream. There is a thread on haskell-mailing-list from time to time. What language you chose should depend always on your (your team) skills, tools and tasks. -Philip > please dont take this email as an offence. i am just curious. at this point, i can still easily look for an alternative to ocaml, so its best to ask now. > > regards, > keyan > _______________________________________________ > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: > http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list > Archives: http://caml.inria.fr > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs