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 OAA29169; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:20:47 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA29302 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:20:46 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from rabelais.socialtools.net (rabelais.socialtools.net [81.2.94.243]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3PCKjYM019117 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:20:45 +0200 Received: by rabelais.socialtools.net (Postfix, from userid 108) id 427C5232DD; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 13:20:45 +0100 (BST) Received: from socialtools.net (chaucer.socialtools.net [81.2.94.242]) by rabelais.socialtools.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C708232DB; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 13:20:44 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <408BAD05.7060205@socialtools.net> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 13:20:21 +0100 From: Benjamin Geer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en, fr, it MIME-Version: 1.0 To: james woodyatt Cc: The Caml Trade Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] The Missing Library References: <20040423185148.GA4434@excelhustler.com> <20040423195206.GA27257@tallman.kefka.frap.net> <20040423202342.GA5962@excelhustler.com> <20040423223611.33ef1c08@haddock.max.fr> <20040423211003.GD6783@excelhustler.com> <20040423213325.GF6783@excelhustler.com> <93448C92-9685-11D8-891D-000A958FF2FE@wetware.com> In-Reply-To: <93448C92-9685-11D8-891D-000A958FF2FE@wetware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on rabelais.socialtools.net X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Miltered: at concorde by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 woodyatt:01 irrelevant:01 modules:02 wrote:03 wrote:03 library:03 library:03 differences:04 platforms:05 java:07 benjamin:07 standard:07 standard:07 extend:07 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk james woodyatt wrote: > On 23 Apr 2004, at 14:33, John Goerzen wrote: >> A plethora of mutually-incompatible modules that duplicate and extend >> standard library features is in nobody's interest. The result will be >> an irrelevant standard library and a fragmented development community. > > Yeah— that was such a huge roadblock to the popularity of the C language. The difficulty of writing portable C or C++ code, given the differences between libraries available on different platforms, has been one of the main reasons for the massive industry shift towards Java in recent years. Ben ------------------- 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