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=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F05BBAF for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:20:32 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAAsLikjAXQIm/2dsb2JhbACvUgM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.31,255,1215381600"; d="scan'208";a="13468468" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 26 Jul 2008 02:20:32 +0200 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m6Q0KUG2024586 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:20:32 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoAAAsLikjLOwFrmmdsb2JhbACSTgEBAQEBCAUIBxEEnE4D X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.31,255,1215381600"; d="scan'208";a="15470852" Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au ([203.59.1.107]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 26 Jul 2008 02:20:29 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAAsLikjLzuai/2dsb2JhbACvUgM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.31,255,1215360000"; d="scan'208";a="346505230" Received: from unknown (HELO hendrix.mega-nerd.net) ([203.206.230.162]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 26 Jul 2008 08:20:25 +0800 Received: from hendrix (hendrix [192.168.200.99]) by hendrix.mega-nerd.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D053AB601 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:24:03 +1000 (EST) Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:24:02 +1000 From: Erik de Castro Lopo To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] New Ocaml Plug-in for NetBeans Message-Id: <20080726102402.b0bcbd3c.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <200807260056.26888.jon@ffconsultancy.com> References: <18587175.post@talk.nabble.com> <1216802534.4886eee6211e8@webmail.inescporto.pt> <18606458.post@talk.nabble.com> <200807260056.26888.jon@ffconsultancy.com> Reply-To: caml-list@inria.fr Organization: Erik Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 488A6DCE.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 camlp:01 lablgtk:01 plug-in:98 woman:98 wrote:01 unix:01 unix:01 parsing:01 sexual:98 caml-list:01 gui:03 erik:04 erik:04 Jon Harrop wrote: > If I might stick my oar in: why don't the OCaml community write an IDE for > OCaml in OCaml using Camlp4 for parsing with throwback and LablGTK for the > GUI? Most people who actually code in Ocaml do so using the best IDE on the planet, Unix. For those people an IDE is a step backwards and hence they have no interest in writing one. So I have an idea; why don't *you* write a cross platform IDE and if it really is better than Unix then people would use it. Erik -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo ----------------------------------------------------------------- "It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation." -- Camille Paglia