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 MAA10272; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:12:52 +0200 (MET DST) 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 MAA10405 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:12:48 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from hod.void.org (pD9548E4C.dip.t-dialin.net [217.84.142.76]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g7TACfX27295; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:12:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from mamous@localhost) by hod.void.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA00972; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:11:50 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: hod.void.org: mamous set sender to leypold@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de using -f From: "M E Leypold @ labnet" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15725.62310.16647.701975@hod.void.org> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:11:50 +0200 To: Chris Hecker Cc: tom.hirschowitz@inria.fr, caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] mixin modules paper and future? In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020828121746.02985ce0@mail.d6.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020826201812.02c89e20@mail.d6.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020828121746.02985ce0@mail.d6.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.00 under Emacs 20.4.1 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Chris Hecker writes: > > >You're right, it is not at all planned for any future release. There > >are too many open questions yet even to make any guess whether it will ever > >find its way. But thanks for your interest! > > Hopefully you guys are actively working on solving the open > problems. :) I think that this is an incredibly important feature for > caml to make headway into large systems development. Do you think so? I think 1 thing we can learn from Java, C, C++, FORTRAN and COBOL is, that the only thing a language doesn't need to "make headway into large systems development" is any smart mechanisms for composing systems. That is to say: Success doesn't depend on merit. Regards -- Markus ------------------- 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