From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id OAA19809 for caml-red; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 14:24:04 +0100 (MET) 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 SAA11896 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:50:31 +0100 (MET) Received: from miss.wu-wien.ac.at (miss.wu-wien.ac.at [137.208.107.17]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f03HoUT08304 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:50:31 +0100 (MET) Received: (from mottl@localhost) by miss.wu-wien.ac.at (8.9.0/8.9.0) id SAA32361; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:50:23 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:50:23 +0100 From: Markus Mottl To: John Max Skaller Cc: Mattias Waldau , OCAML Subject: Re: JIT-compilation for OCaml? Message-ID: <20010103185023.A29666@miss.wu-wien.ac.at> References: <20010102170753.A4018@miss.wu-wien.ac.at> <20010102203051.A18481@miss.wu-wien.ac.at> <3A534A99.93817EA9@ozemail.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A534A99.93817EA9@ozemail.com.au>; from skaller@ozemail.com.au on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:51:53 +1100 Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr On Thu, 04 Jan 2001, John Max Skaller wrote: > Actually, I think ocamlopt is _more_ portable. > There's no mucking around with custom run-times, etc. Well, it would be really funny to see OCaml compete against Java in the browser market (a rather unrealistic dream, I fear). Wasn't there a basic WWW-browser written in OCaml? I am not sure, but I think it also supported OCaml-byte code. > That's easy: a half way decent GUI. > If Ocaml had a decent GUI API that worked on just X- and MS- Windows > systems, it would be a killer. Tk just doesn't cut it anymore. > GTK has promise, but the widgets are immature and lacking functionality. > Java's Swing is a bit messy, but it does provide a rich variety > of configurable widgets, and some documentation. :-( I expected that people would mention GUI-libraries, but I don't write GUIs. Is this really everything people are missing? I wouldn't mind porting the one or other library if it has functionality I need. - Markus Mottl -- Markus Mottl, mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at, http://miss.wu-wien.ac.at/~mottl