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 XAA29296; Wed, 19 May 2004 23:38:26 +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 XAA29442 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 23:38:25 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from aomori.annexia.org (annexia.force9.co.uk [212.56.101.183]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4JLcOEV028218 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 23:38:24 +0200 Received: from rich by aomori.annexia.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQYlc-0007zc-00 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 22:38:24 +0100 Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 22:38:24 +0100 Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Large projects in OCaml Message-ID: <20040519213823.GA30483@redhat.com> References: <20040519172442.30413.qmail@web14522.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040519172442.30413.qmail@web14522.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 40ABD3D0.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 2004:99 runtime:01 lablgtk:01 bug:01 ltd:98 compiler:01 compiler:01 bindings:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 gtk:01 0700,:01 assembler:01 arch:02 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:24:42AM -0700, ramu ramamurthy wrote: > a) Are there examples of > commercial s/w developed in OCaml? I'll leave that to others to answer fully. Last summer we developed some large commercial software in OCaml, but it was a private contract. > b) Is the native compiler/runtime/tools mature for > large commercial projects? Yes, very much so. > c) Is OCaml support (for bugs etc) good? There are very few bugs in the core compiler, so I can't comment on support! We encountered a few bugs in the Gtk bindings, which were fixed rapidly, either by ourselves or with help from people on the lablgtk list. The main bugs we found were with the lamentable Microsoft development tools that we had to use, eg. we found a massive (and quite scary) bug in the MS assembler/linker. I would avoid Windows as much as possible if I were you. Rich. -- Richard Jones. http://www.annexia.org/ http://www.j-london.com/ Merjis Ltd. http://www.merjis.com/ - improving website return on investment MONOLITH is an advanced framework for writing web applications in C, easier than using Perl & Java, much faster and smaller, reusable widget-based arch, database-backed, discussion, chat, calendaring: http://www.annexia.org/freeware/monolith/ ------------------- 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