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 QAA08551; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:47:06 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f 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 QAA14910 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:47:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from aomori.annexia.org (annexia.force9.co.uk [212.56.101.183]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h8JEl4503297 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:47:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from rich by aomori.annexia.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1A0MXF-00016f-00; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:47:01 +0100 Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:47:01 +0100 To: Mattias Waldau Cc: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Commercial application written in O'Caml: ExcelEverywhere Message-ID: <20030919144701.GB4205@redhat.com> References: <3F6AB7CB.6020505@abc.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F6AB7CB.6020505@abc.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Richard Jones X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 mattias:01 waldau:01 disadvantage:01 -bits:01 freshmeat:01 ltd:98 unicode:01 ocaml:01 irrelevant:01 0200,:01 it'd:01 sep:01 ruby:02 o'caml:02 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 10:01:15AM +0200, Mattias Waldau wrote: > Disadvantage > - 8-bits strings. > UNICODE is needed and the standard for .NET, Java, Ruby... Yeah, UTF-8 is a real necessity for us too. > - Few libraries Yup. If there's one thing which Perl/Java have taught us, it's that you can NEVER, EVER have a large enough standard library! It'd be great if OCaml came with a really comprehensive library. > - Do not drop the Win32-support Definitely not! Rich. -- Richard Jones. http://www.annexia.org/ http://freshmeat.net/users/rwmj Merjis Ltd. http://www.merjis.com/ - all your business data are belong to you. All new technology is irrelevant until it is taken up by the public. ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners