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From: Jere Sanisalo <xm_ocaml@xmunkki.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml to C
Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 11:50:00 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040509115000.A9300@xmunkki.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040508213716.GA31881@complete.org>; from jgoerzen@complete.org on Sat, May 08, 2004 at 04:37:16PM -0500

On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 04:37:16PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
>However, if you are going to do that, why not just compile the code to
>native code with ocamlopt and not worry about the C piece?

Because ocaml compilers/runtimes do not exist for every platform (say,
consoles). And because compiling to C code could allow you to write
independent libraries for others to use. It would be nice to release
libraries that do a ton of stuff, usable for C/C++ coders, that were written
easily with ocaml. And also some managers seem to trust projects that are
"pure C/C++" much more than projects that use a variable amount of
languages.

-- 
Jere Sanisalo [xm@xmunkki.org] - http://www.xmunkki.org/

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-09  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-07 21:11 Jon Harrop
2004-05-08 21:37 ` John Goerzen
2004-05-09  8:50   ` Jere Sanisalo [this message]
2004-05-09 19:48     ` David Brown
2004-05-10 19:10     ` John Goerzen
2004-05-10 20:03       ` Eric Stokes

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