From: "sebastien FURIC" <sebastien.furic@tni-valiosys.com>
To: OCaml Mailing list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: [Fwd: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity]
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:45:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E6DBE5F.DACDC933@tni.fr> (raw)
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Sorry, I forgot the list...
Sebastien
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From: "Sébastien Furic" <sebastien.furic@tni.fr>
To: Pierre Weis <pierre.weis@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:44:53 +0100
Message-ID: <3E6DBE25.25F38749@tni.fr>
Hi,
Pierre Weis a écrit :
<snip>
>
> You are also right: this language has to be taught before being
> profitably used. The darker side of this fact is that conversely, you
> have to learn it. This may be the main drawback of Objective Caml:
> there is no ``Objective Caml for dummies''. That may be the price to
> pay to use a powerful and theoretically well-founded language.
>
<snip>
Some attempts are made in Haskell in order to return more comprehensive
error reports for beginners. Helium may be a good source of inspiration
for a "beginners-only" ocaml compiler:
http://www.cs.uu.nl/~afie/helium/
IMHO, syntactic aspects could be handled by an instance of ocamlp4. But
what about the rest ?
Cheers,
Sebastien
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