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 mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20C19BBCA for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2008 02:04:12 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AoMBAOVp8kfUnw6Gb2dsb2JhbACCOI8SAQwFAgUHGJpn X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,589,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="24479051" Received: from pih-relay08.plus.net ([212.159.14.134]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 02 Apr 2008 02:04:11 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by pih-relay08.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1JgqSY-0003d1-Tm for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:04:11 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Surge in interest in OCaml Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 00:54:42 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804020054.42832.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: b63c5a5265a6d3cdf4a33e4c689eadcf X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 compiler:01 parsers:01 run-time:01 stubs:01 surge:98 elsa:98 frog:98 suggestion:03 seems:03 library:03 perhaps:05 useful:09 scratch:10 For anyone who is interested: we were having a quiet period with regard to our OCaml products lately until the OCaml Journal published an article on LLVM last month. This seems to have sparked a lot of interest in OCaml from that community because this is a great choice of language for many of the people trying to write compiler front-ends that use LLVM. There are other aspects of commonality between OCaml and LLVM interest at the moment. I see the topic of C++ parsers arose again here recently (Olmar/Elsa). The LLVM guys are struggling to write C and C++ front-ends for LLVM but they appear to be doing everything from scratch in C/C++. I have been biting my lip trying not to say "Use OCaml!" on their mailing list but perhaps someone with relevant OCaml experience could provide them with a better starting point like a mini implementation? Finally, one of our customers can up with a great suggestion: that we list OCaml-related projects on our site that we believe would benefit the community. One of the first things I would like to list is the creation of a library that allows FFIs to be autogenerated at run-time using LLVM, thus obviating the need for C stubs. I think this would be tremendously useful. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e