From: John Max Skaller <skaller@maxtal.com.au>
To: Markus Mottl <mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>
Cc: Brian Rogoff <bpr@best.com>, OCAML <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: When functional languages can be accepted by industry?
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 05:09:02 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3900A74E.A5C17D01@maxtal.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200004201640.SAA05607@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>
Markus Mottl wrote:
>I believe that OCaml could be a
> serious threat to some scripting languages: partly due to its high
> performance, partly, because it is much saner = easier to maintain, and
> highly portable! The Unix-library is very complete and would also play an
> important role here.
For me, it has deficiency as a scripting language: interactive
(command prompt) use is clumbsy because gnu-readline isn't integrated:
no history or editing. [This should be easy to fix: there's some code
in the Vyper.sourceforge.net repository which might be adapted.]
--
John (Max) Skaller, mailto:skaller@maxtal.com.au
10/1 Toxteth Rd Glebe NSW 2037 Australia voice: 61-2-9660-0850
checkout Vyper http://Vyper.sourceforge.net
download Interscript http://Interscript.sourceforge.net
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Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-03 1:27 Dennis (Gang) Chen
2000-04-06 16:51 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2000-04-07 5:27 ` Dennis (Gang) Chen
[not found] ` <14574.1721.508470.790475@cylinder.csl.sri.com>
2000-04-11 0:24 ` Dennis (Gang) Chen
2000-04-11 17:58 ` Pierre Weis
2000-04-12 1:45 ` Dennis (Gang) Chen
2000-04-12 17:27 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2000-04-13 15:40 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-14 19:16 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-12 18:06 ` David Brown
2000-04-13 1:23 ` Dennis (Gang) Chen
2000-04-13 14:36 ` Pierre Weis
2000-04-13 6:53 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2000-04-13 12:20 ` Frank Atanassow
2000-04-13 17:28 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-13 12:28 ` Steve Stevenson
2000-04-13 13:38 ` jean-marc alliot
2000-04-13 16:00 ` William Chesters
2000-04-13 14:29 ` T. Kurt Bond
2000-04-13 17:23 ` Julian Assange
2000-04-16 16:33 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-17 15:06 ` Markus Mottl
2000-04-17 19:55 ` John Prevost
2000-04-24 2:36 ` Chris Tilt
2000-04-14 9:19 ` The beginning of a library for Formal algebra and numerical Analysis Christophe Raffalli
2000-04-14 9:32 ` Caml wish list Christophe Raffalli
2000-04-19 11:40 ` thierry BRAVIER
2000-04-19 13:45 ` William Chesters
2000-04-19 20:45 ` Christophe Raffalli
2000-04-25 18:16 ` Pierre Weis
2000-05-10 4:50 ` reference initialization Hongwei Xi
2000-05-11 13:58 ` Pierre Weis
2000-05-11 18:59 ` Hongwei Xi
2000-05-12 17:07 ` Pierre Weis
2000-05-12 19:59 ` Hongwei Xi
2000-05-15 6:58 ` Max Skaller
2000-05-15 17:56 ` Hongwei Xi
2000-05-14 14:37 ` John Max Skaller
2000-05-13 7:07 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2000-05-13 7:09 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2000-05-11 16:02 ` John Prevost
2000-04-13 16:59 ` When functional languages can be accepted by industry? John Max Skaller
2000-04-15 22:29 ` William Chesters
2000-04-16 22:24 ` Nickolay Semyonov
2000-04-18 6:52 ` Max Skaller
2000-04-17 12:51 ` jean-marc alliot
2000-04-17 17:49 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-17 22:34 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-19 15:31 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-19 18:30 ` Michael Hicks
2000-04-20 16:40 ` Markus Mottl
2000-04-20 17:58 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-20 18:52 ` Markus Mottl
2000-04-21 20:44 ` Michael Hohn
2000-04-21 19:22 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-21 19:09 ` John Max Skaller [this message]
2000-04-21 19:45 ` Markus Mottl
2000-04-21 19:56 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-21 19:18 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-18 10:53 ` Sven LUTHER
2000-04-19 15:57 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-13 7:05 ` Pierre Weis
2000-04-13 17:04 ` Julian Assange
2000-04-07 15:44 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-17 12:57 FALCON Gilles FTRD/DTL/LAN
2000-04-17 15:35 ` Xavier Leroy
2000-04-18 5:54 ` Francois Pottier
2000-04-19 14:53 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2000-04-19 15:17 ` Claude Marche
2000-04-20 1:44 ` Max Skaller
2000-04-20 3:01 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2000-04-21 0:41 ` Jacques Garrigue
2000-04-21 19:35 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-21 20:53 ` Michael Hohn
2000-04-25 10:50 ` Remi VANICAT
2000-04-20 1:52 ` Max Skaller
2000-04-20 3:08 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2000-04-20 2:51 ` Max Skaller
2000-04-20 17:17 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2000-04-17 22:24 bdb-as-camluser
2000-04-20 12:45 Gerd Stolpmann
2000-04-21 19:56 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-22 18:30 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2000-04-23 3:20 ` John Max Skaller
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