From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: weis Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA31851 for caml-redist; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:59:56 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA06153 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 21:45:56 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from miss.wu-wien.ac.at (miss.wu-wien.ac.at [137.208.107.17]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA10355 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 21:45:55 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from mottl@localhost) by miss.wu-wien.ac.at (8.9.0/8.9.0) id VAA19097; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 21:45:45 +0200 (MET DST) From: Markus Mottl Message-Id: <200004211945.VAA19097@miss.wu-wien.ac.at> Subject: Re: When functional languages can be accepted by industry? To: skaller@maxtal.com.au (John Max Skaller) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 21:45:45 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: caml-list@inria.fr (OCAML) In-Reply-To: <3900A74E.A5C17D01@maxtal.com.au> from "John Max Skaller" at Apr 22, 2000 05:09:02 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: weis > For me, it has deficiency as a scripting language: interactive > (command prompt) use is clumbsy because gnu-readline isn't integrated: > no history or editing. [This should be easy to fix: there's some code > in the Vyper.sourceforge.net repository which might be adapted.] I have already nearly forgotten about this problem: I use the "ile"-tool (input line editor - some age old piece of software) as "wrapper" around the OCaml-toplevel, which gives me all these nice features back. Works with just about any terminal program! For those of you who don't have it yet, I have put a link to the source-tarball into Gerd Stolpmann's link database (name: ILE): http://www.npc.de/ocaml/linkdb After compilation, just start it with "ile ocaml" (even better: assign an alias!) Especially useful for teaching/demonstration purposes... Best regards, Markus Mottl -- Markus Mottl, mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at, http://miss.wu-wien.ac.at/~mottl