From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8A61BC8C for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 14:57:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from first.in-berlin.de (dialin-145-254-064-164.arcor-ip.net [145.254.64.164]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j15DvY9K002885 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 14:57:35 +0100 Received: by first.in-berlin.de (Postfix, from userid 501) id 6C3EDA7E41; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 14:31:48 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 14:31:48 +0100 From: Oliver Bandel To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Estimating the size of the ocaml community Message-ID: <20050205133147.GE484@first.in-berlin.de> References: <36663.132.206.3.150.1107545768.squirrel@mail.cs.mcgill.ca> <1107570464.14589.482.camel@pelican.wigram> <4820.70.48.80.225.1107572861.squirrel@mail.cs.mcgill.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4820.70.48.80.225.1107572861.squirrel@mail.cs.mcgill.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4204D0CE.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; oliver:01 bandel:01 oliver:01 in-berlin:01 caml-list:01 ocaml:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 o'caml:01 vim:01 o'caml:01 ocaml:01 ...:98 ...:98 assembler:02 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:07:41PM -0500, Ernesto Posse wrote: > > > On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 06:36, Ernesto Posse wrote: > > > >> Recently I started a small project, and I wanted to develop it in > >> O'Caml, but after a while I gave up, and did it in Java. My first > >> concern was choosing an IDE. > > > > Why do you need that stuff? What's wrong with a plain > > old text editor and couple of batch files to build > > the code? > > There is nothing wrong with a plain old editor, but for many projects an > IDE can improve development time significantly. I personally prefer using vi/vim and cli-tools. But if there would be an IDE, that would be nice for developers that like to use IDEs. [...] > Without them, there is not much chance to make the O'Caml community grow > significantly. Well, I'm not sure if I really want to have grown the OCaml-programmers significantly. It's enough, when I get a job, where I can do things in OCaml. If the other people write applications in Assembler, I don't have a problem with that. ;-) But what I'm looking for, is to have a COCOA-binding. (and other GUI-bindings too... the graphics-Modlue is nice, but it does not work on OS-X (?!) and to have a true GUI-interface to the platform I'm developing on, that is what I'm looking for) Ciao, Oliver