From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Interactive technical computing
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:06:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703091006.11018.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1173398646.6613.56.camel@rosella.wigram>
On Friday 09 March 2007 00:04, skaller wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 15:26 -0600, Robert Fischer wrote:
> > > Putting aside the obvious cultural resistance to using a sensible
> > > language for this project, there is one technical hurdle: It needs to
> > > compile into a DLL which can be linked to other programs (in C and
> > > other languages). I can't generate such code using ocamlopt, at least
> > > not without using unsupported out-of-tree extensions.
> >
> > I don't think this is a real hurdle to general adoption of a language.
>
> It is in fact an utter and complete show stopper.
Agreed. This is blocking the development of third party libraries written in
OCaml.
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
OCaml for Scientists
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-09 10:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-08 21:26 Robert Fischer
2007-03-09 0:04 ` skaller
2007-03-09 10:06 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2007-03-09 10:25 ` Jon Harrop
2007-03-10 14:55 ` Richard Jones
2007-03-10 22:07 ` Michael Vanier
2007-03-29 0:33 ` Jon Harrop
2007-03-29 8:41 ` Joel Reymont
2007-03-30 11:31 ` Jon Harrop
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-03-09 17:41 Robert Fischer
2007-03-09 15:35 Robert Fischer
2007-03-09 14:21 Robert Fischer
2007-03-09 14:13 Robert Fischer
2007-03-09 15:21 ` skaller
2007-03-09 17:26 ` Jon Harrop
2007-03-09 18:50 ` Jon Harrop
2007-03-09 13:33 Robert Fischer
2007-03-09 13:49 ` Jon Harrop
2007-03-09 13:54 ` skaller
2007-03-08 1:13 Jon Harrop
2007-03-08 1:49 ` [Caml-list] " Jim Miller
2007-03-08 2:52 ` skaller
2007-03-08 3:00 ` Jim Miller
2007-03-08 3:10 ` skaller
[not found] ` <beed19130703071919g1f537f59o93ce06871fba8f3a@mail.gmail.com>
2007-03-08 3:27 ` skaller
2007-03-08 3:36 ` Jim Miller
2007-03-08 21:16 ` Richard Jones
[not found] ` <45F10E90.5000707@laposte.net>
2007-03-09 7:43 ` Matthieu Dubuget
2007-03-10 14:58 ` Richard Jones
2007-03-08 12:22 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-03-08 14:24 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-03-08 19:34 ` Jon Harrop
2007-03-08 20:34 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-03-09 10:22 ` Jon Harrop
2007-03-09 10:45 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-03-08 2:12 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-03-08 11:12 ` Andrej Bauer
2007-03-08 11:59 ` Vu Ngoc San
2007-03-08 12:43 ` Jon Harrop
2007-03-08 21:28 ` Vu Ngoc San
2007-03-09 0:14 ` skaller
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