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 LAA01254; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:51:32 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f 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 LAA01250 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:51:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr (dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr [130.79.6.1]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f369pU527466 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:51:30 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lambda.u-strasbg.fr (lambda.u-strasbg.fr [130.79.90.63]) by dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA29801; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:50:13 +0200 Received: from luther by lambda.u-strasbg.fr with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 14lStz-0005m1-00; Fri, 06 Apr 2001 11:51:35 +0200 Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:51:35 +0200 To: Gerd Stolpmann Cc: Chris Hecker , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: javacaml Message-ID: <20010406115135.D22133@lambda.u-strasbg.fr> References: <200103292240.OAA22134@smtp5-cm.mail.eni.net> <4.3.2.7.2.20010403142051.032a0a70@shell16.ba.best.com> <01040500354406.00489@ice> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: <01040500354406.00489@ice>; from gerd@gerd-stolpmann.de on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 11:10:28PM +0200 From: Sven LUTHER Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 11:10:28PM +0200, Gerd Stolpmann wrote: > I think I am a being that is able to learn, and my conclusion from my Java > experiments is that it is better to go non-Java ways than to accept the JVM as > it is. There are a number of ways to do so: > > - Why isn't there an O'Caml plugin for Mozilla? In many environments, you do > not need a sandbox, e.g. within intranets, and code signing suffices. > > - Why isn't there a version of the bytecode interpreter that can dynamically > load libraries? (I know that there is a patch, but nothing official.) This > makes it simple to distribute platform-independent bytecode, because it > becomes possible to provide a set of official OVMs (O'Caml Virtual Machines) > for every platform. If you want to execute an O'Caml program, you need only > to download the OVM from caml.inria.fr, and you are ready to make your > experiences with this language. For it to be really usefull (i think) you would also need that all now -custom using libraries become trully platform independent. Xavier spoke about it some time ago. Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr