From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA10094; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:49:06 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA10208 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:49:05 +0100 (MET) Received: from mailhost.tni.fr (firewall.tni.fr [195.25.255.61]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h2BAn4X03622 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:49:04 +0100 (MET) Received: from groscool.tni.fr ([195.25.255.1]) by mailhost.tni.fr (Netscape Messaging Server 3.62) with SMTP id 1582 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:48:49 +0100 Received: from 192.168.7.60 by groscool.tni.fr (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:48:49 +0100 (Paris, Madrid) Message-ID: <3E6DBE5F.DACDC933@tni.fr> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:45:51 +0100 From: "sebastien FURIC" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [fr] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OCaml Mailing list Subject: [Fwd: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------EC3B29637F7D52E785C7DB74" X-Spam: no; 0.00; furic:01 tni-valiosys:01 caml-list:01 tni:99 pierre:01 weis:01 haskell:01 beginners:01 ocamlp:01 compiler:01 ecrit:01 ocaml:01 caml:01 imho:01 drawback:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Il s'agit d'un message multivolet au format MIME. --------------EC3B29637F7D52E785C7DB74 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sorry, I forgot the list... Sebastien --------------EC3B29637F7D52E785C7DB74 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Message-ID: <3E6DBE25.25F38749@tni.fr> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:44:53 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= Furic X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [fr] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pierre Weis Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity References: <200303111023.LAA09578@pauillac.inria.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi, Pierre Weis a écrit : > > 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. > 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 --------------EC3B29637F7D52E785C7DB74-- ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners