From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF10CBC69 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 11:15:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from ptb-relay01.plus.net (ptb-relay01.plus.net [212.159.14.212]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l29AFA7r012954 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 11:15:10 +0100 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by ptb-relay01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1HPc4u-0001IV-PZ for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:12:00 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Interactive technical computing Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 10:06:10 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <3D1E4D9CA9BCE04D8F2B55F203AE4CE30666AB7C@selma.roomandboard.com> <1173398646.6613.56.camel@rosella.wigram> In-Reply-To: <1173398646.6613.56.camel@rosella.wigram> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703091006.11018.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 45F133AE.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocamlopt:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 frog:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 compile:01 caml-list:01 dll:03 languages:03 blocking:04 thu:05 computing:05 linked:06 written:07 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