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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




  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-04-25 16:57 UTC|newest]

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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