From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEC2DD45F for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 14:43:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jA4DhpYe004990 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 14:43:51 +0100 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA01166 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 14:43:49 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.libertysurf.net (mx-out.libertysurf.net [213.36.80.91]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jA4Dhmic016872 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 14:43:48 +0100 Received: from dyn-83-156-164-85.ppp.tiscali.fr (83.156.164.85) by mail.libertysurf.net (7.1.026) id 434CEDC500757BFB for caml-list@inria.fr; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 14:43:48 +0100 From: Blue Prawn To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: [Caml-list] what is high-level (was: Wikipedia) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 14:46:52 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200511031726.59561.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <1131045878.4327.94.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1131071464.10871.44.camel@rosella> In-Reply-To: <1131071464.10871.44.camel@rosella> Organization: l'Association Linux-Nantes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511041443.15429.fmonnier@linux-nantes.fr.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 436B6597.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 436B6594.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 high-level:01 high-level:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 cheers:01 softwares:98 python:02 python:02 programming:03 blue:96 perhaps:03 scripting:06 php:93 manual:07 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 Hello, Perhaps it would be a good idea to create un page on Wikipedia to explain what is a high-level programming language, because its definition in all documents related to OCaml definitively do not fit the definition the penguins gave to me when I started to go in my lug, which was a language easy to learn and use designed for common users, and not only for programers and computer scientists. They told me about ABC which led to python which is comonly used in softwares as scripting extention for the users. But OCaml do need some background knowledge to understand the official manual, which is not true for PHP, Python or Ruby. -- Cheers