From: Michael Vanier <mvanier@cs.caltech.edu>
To: bemann@execpc.com
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml for Mono/.NET?
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 00:27:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200207210727.g6L7RRb01660@orchestra.cs.caltech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020721002549.A752@execpc.com> (message from Travis Bemann on Sun, 21 Jul 2002 00:25:49 -0400)
> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 00:25:49 -0400
> From: Travis Bemann <bemann@execpc.com>
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 12:31:52AM -0700, Michael Vanier wrote:
> >
> > Are there any plans to port ocaml to .NET? Given that the Mono
> > implementation of .NET is coming along nicely, having an ocaml compiler
> > that can compile to .NET IL would greatly increase ocaml's visibility, not
> > to mention solving some of the library and packaging issues that keep
> > coming up with ocaml. I know about the F# project, but that implementati=
> on
> > appears to be only for a subset of ocaml, and is controlled by Microsoft.
> > I'd be happier with something from the core ocaml team. Of course, MY
> > motivation is that I'd like to be able to write nifty graphical apps in
> > ocaml under Linux. After all, once you learn ocaml, C# is not really very
> > tempting ;-)
>
> The thing is that this subset is FORCED by the inherent design of the
> CLR/.NET bytecode virtual machine, which doesn't support stuff like
> parameterized modules. Any attempt to port something like OCaml to
> something like CLR/.NET will only result in its bastardization, and
> thus the loss of many of its features/advantages.
>
That's interesting, considering that standard ML is one of the languages
supposedly targeted by the common language runtime (by which I mean that
the SML team was consulted on what features they would need in the
intermediate language in order to support SML). Doesn't SML have
parameterized modules?
Mike
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2002-07-17 7:31 Michael Vanier
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2002-07-23 9:00 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-07-26 4:33 Andrew Kennedy
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