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=0.6 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 07C53BC37 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:59:55 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AmMDAFets0rAbSoIgWdsb2JhbACbEQEBFiSzWYQbBQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,412,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="46861706" Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 19 Sep 2009 00:59:54 +0200 X-Envelope-From: oliver@first.in-berlin.de X-Envelope-To: Received: from localhost (okapi.in-berlin.de [192.109.42.117]) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id n8IMxrMN005978 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:59:53 +0200 Received: from e178036052.adsl.alicedsl.de (e178036052.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.178.36.52]) by webmail.in-berlin.de (Horde Framework) with HTTP; Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:59:53 +0200 Message-ID: <20090919005953.20724aglhumqekfd@webmail.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:59:53 +0200 From: "Oliver Bandel" To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Scilab: Why not written in OCaml? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.3.3 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang_at_IN-Berlin_e.V. on 192.109.42.8 X-Spam: no; 0.00; bandel:01 in-berlin:01 scilab:01 ocaml:01 scilab:01 inria's:01 ocaml:01 rewriting:01 inria's:01 oliver:01 oliver:01 seems:03 inria:06 linux:07 written:07 Hello, the program Scilab, a Matlab-clone, written by INRIA, is written in C, and since version 5.0 is using Java-Stuff for Plotting, and this stuff is used in a way that it does not really support Linux... ...why is that program not written with INRIA's Ocaml? Maybe rewriting it would make sense, because Scilab seems not to be very stable. ...and from INRIA's view I would think: they have developed OCaml, but do not use it for their own developments.... ... strange, isn't it? Ciao, Oliver