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 SAA24091; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:38:52 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA24501 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:38:51 +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 QAA20838 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:22:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from p-mail2.cnet.fr (p-mail2.rd.francetelecom.com [193.49.124.32]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with SMTP id f9OEM1502507 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:22:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by p-voyageur.rd.francetelecom.fr with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <4JT8CFKR>; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:18:22 +0200 Received: from rd.francetelecom.fr (lat4148.rd.francetelecom.fr [10.193.6.100]) by l-mhs1.rd.francetelecom.fr with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id 4RTPX12L; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:17:10 +0200 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:18:24 +0200 From: Cuihtlauac ALVARADO To: Mattias Waldau Cc: Rolf Wester , caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Whither the Caml Consortium? Message-ID: <20011024161824.F10047@rd.francetelecom.fr> References: <3BD58FBC.24509.6BA76944@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mattias.waldau@abc.se on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 03:52:46PM +0200 Organization: France Telecom Recherche & Developpement Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > Regarding a killer-application in Ocaml to show that Ocaml is best, we have > to find a program that MANY people need. Just look how difficult it is to > create a good email program for Linux (Evolution is at last getting ready). > Such an application could be built using Ocaml instead. It would work, no > buffer overuns would reduce the number of security glitches. The only > problem is that almost all killer application has graphical user interfaces, > and I still haven't seen a good looking Ocaml-program (any pointers?). Just a 30 seconds dream : a small, fast and robust web browser... Wouldn't you like to have a GC in Netscape ? Wouldn't you like to use powerfull tools able to program a defensive parsing for all the HTTP/Javascript garbage you can find out there ? Isn'it what *every* people need ? I can dream no other definitive killer app for Ocaml. -- Cuihtlauac ALVARADO - France Telecom R & D - DTL/MSV/MFL 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion Cedex - France Tel: +33 2 96 05 32 73 - Mob: +33 6 08 10 80 41 - Fax: +33 2 96 05 39 45 ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr