From: Fabrice Marchant <fabrice.marchant@orange.fr>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] A C to OCaml helper ?
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:09:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080312220938.236ba3d5@orange.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47D84537.2060100@starynkevitch.net>
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:03:51 +0100
Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile@starynkevitch.net> wrote:
> Fabrice Marchant wrote:
> > Please does it exist some tool that could do at least the very mechanical first parts of the translation of a C source to OCaml ?
>
> Why do you want to do that?
Why do I want a tool to do the _very mechanical parts_ of the job ?
A simple example :
because I would be happy to get the comment brackets automatically translated ( and the C++ like C extension // too.)
There are several such very automatic things like if( ) -> if then.
> You could call most of your C routines from Ocaml.
Yes, but in the present case, I'm interesting in a full rewriting. This is precisely because I imagine to be able to rewrite the C ( game ) program a very different and terse way, that I undertake this task.
> And most importantly, the main interest of ocaml is the way of thinking
> it.
Absolutely : that's the reason why I play to rewrite the C program an OCaml way.
> When mastered, it is a language much more expressive & much more fun.
Without daring to brag about 'mastering' the language,
I however declare to perfectly know this.
> And no mechanical translation would give you that....
Obviously.
> If it is a homework, better to start thinking & coding in Ocaml, than to
> translate blindly C into Ocaml.
>
> And a blind translation won't learn anything about Ocaml or functional
> programming.
When I play chess, I always think the other player will give the best things and never suppose he has absurd ideas in mind...
However, I remember you are the man who oriented me to OCaml and I'm very grateful of this, because OCaml programming is a real pleasure
Best Regards,
Fabrice
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-12 19:42 Fabrice Marchant
2008-03-12 20:51 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2008-03-12 21:03 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2008-03-12 21:09 ` Fabrice Marchant [this message]
2008-03-13 6:41 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2008-03-17 19:07 ` Kuba Ober
2008-03-17 20:33 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-03-13 1:56 ` [Caml-list] " Christopher L Conway
2008-03-13 3:14 ` Jon Harrop
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