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 KAA23677; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:26:57 +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 KAA22877 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:26:56 +0100 (MET) From: Leszek.Holenderski@philips.com Received: from gw-nl5.philips.com (gw-nl5.philips.com [161.85.127.51]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id i169Qtv26254 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:26:55 +0100 (MET) Received: from smtpscan-nl1.philips.com (smtpscan-nl1.philips.com [130.139.36.21]) by gw-nl5.philips.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA6E96B5E4 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:26:54 +0100 (MET) Received: from smtpscan-nl1.philips.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.philips.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67F6319C46 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:26:54 +0100 (MET) Received: from smtprelay-nl1.philips.com (smtprelay-eur1.philips.com [130.139.36.3]) by smtpscan-nl1.philips.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0380B19C4D for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:26:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from prle4.natlab.research.philips.com (prle4.natlab.research.philips.com [130.145.137.96]) by smtprelay-nl1.philips.com (8.9.3p3/8.8.5-1.2.2m-19990317) with ESMTP id KAA17487 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:26:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from smtpmon (smtpmon [130.145.137.150]) by prle4.natlab.research.philips.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i169QrU18682 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:26:53 +0100 Received: from PC7076.ddns.htc.nl.philips.com ([130.145.174.21]) by smtpmon (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.0 ) ; Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:26:53 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <40235DDD.89C22DD9@philips.com> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 10:26:53 +0100 Organization: Philips Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Is Caml good for embedded systems? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; philips:99 caml-list:01 oksanen:01 natively:01 philips:99 caml:01 caml:01 variants:01 lisp:01 concise:01 wrote:03 wrote:03 anybody:03 embedded:05 embedded:05 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Kenneth Oksanen wrote: > > >I wonder if anybody attempted to use Caml (or any of its variants) to > >program embedded systems? > > It seems your question didn't quite get the discussion it deserved, > especially if you mean relatively small embedded systems (say, a > hundred kilobtres of RAM). I was just probing into the subject and I didn't expect much. This rather confirms my early suspicion that Caml is not good for programming embedded systems. > A few years ago a friend of mine, Lars Wirzenius, working on > such systems did a search trying to find existing systems, but came > out empty handed. So we wrote a concise LISP system, Hedgehog, for > his task. Here's the blurb about it: > ... > Lars' employer has the Hedgehog tutorial on-line: > http://www.oliotalo.fi/hedgehog/hoglisp.html > Lars' weblog also gives some information: > http://liw.iki.fi/liw/log/2003-Hedgehog-Lisp.html Thanks for the info. I'd prefer something natively compiled though. Leszek ----------------------------------------------------- Leszek Holenderski, Philips Research, The Netherlands ------------------- 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