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From: Kuba Ober <ober.14@osu.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [announce] O'Browser : OCaml on browsers
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:15:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811181315.30067.ober.14@osu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1226993621.6170.3.camel@Blefuscu>

On Tuesday 18 November 2008, you wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 22:43 -0500, Kuba Ober wrote:
> > > Please note that this is an early version, in particular the DOM
> > > interface module is neither pretty nor well typed.
> > > However, it can already be used to create little applets or scripts (as
> > > in the tutorial [2], the examples of the distribution [3] or my webpage
> > > [4]) and we'll be glad to receive your comments or bug reports.
> >
> > And the reason is?....
>
> To me, the fact that you can write portable lightweight applets sounds
> like a good enough reason. That and the fact that I can see this being
> used by stuff like Ocsigen to make for (even) richer client-server
> applications.

I presume that one can have some Javascript library to abstract out platform
differences, but to have a whole new language? Well, of course what works
works, the question is if the performance is any good.

Cheers, Kuba


  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-18 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-17 16:20 Benjamin Canou
2008-11-18  3:43 ` [Caml-list] " Kuba Ober
2008-11-18  7:33   ` David Teller
2008-11-18 18:15     ` Kuba Ober [this message]
2008-11-18 18:32       ` Vincent Balat
2008-11-18 20:01         ` David Thomas
2008-11-21 15:27           ` Benjamin Canou
2008-11-30 12:09             ` William Le Ferrand
2008-11-18  8:18 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-18 18:18   ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-18  8:33 ` Florian Hars
2008-11-18  9:12 ` Paolo Donadeo
2008-11-18  9:14 ` Burgisser Francois
2008-11-18  9:40   ` Gabriel Kerneis

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