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 mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B26EBC6B for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:18:48 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAEtvH0fUnw6Dnmdsb2JhbACCOIwjAgEBBwQGERg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,326,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="3614191" Received: from pih-relay04.plus.net ([212.159.14.131]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 25 Oct 2007 01:18:47 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by pih-relay04.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1IkpUu-0008Iw-BT for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:18:48 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Which syntax to teach ? Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:10:56 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <1193225773.3612.27.camel@Blefuscu> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710250010.56979.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Spam: no; 0.00; syntax:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 distros:01 camlp:01 lablgtk:01 slick:98 frog:98 wrote:01 ideally:01 caml-list:01 graphics:02 suited:02 seems:03 top-level:03 On Wednesday 24 October 2007 23:52:54 Nathaniel Gray wrote: > I know it seems silly to devote so much energy to debating editors, On the contrary, I find it amazing that there is no slick editor written in OCaml to let people write simple OCaml programs with an integrated top-level, build system, graphics libraries and packages for the main distros. I think that would be enormously beneficial for all newbies and could easily be available for Linux and Mac OS X as well as using the latest ocamlbuild, camlp4 3.10, LablGTK2 and so on. In fact, I would say that OCaml is ideally suited to this task because it falls in the metaprogramming category! -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e