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 RAA04718; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 17:08:23 +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 RAA04539 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 17:08:21 +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 i3PF8KYM004702 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 17:08:20 +0200 Received: by rabelais.socialtools.net (Postfix, from userid 108) id 06A5C232DE; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:08:20 +0100 (BST) Received: from socialtools.net (chaucer.socialtools.net [81.2.94.242]) by rabelais.socialtools.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21CA7232DB; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:08:19 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <408BD44C.6090303@socialtools.net> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 16:07:56 +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: skaller@users.sourceforge.net Cc: james woodyatt , 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> <408BAD05.7060205@socialtools.net> <1082902006.9537.337.camel@pelican.wigram> In-Reply-To: <1082902006.9537.337.camel@pelican.wigram> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 apis:01 ocaml:01 unix:02 string:03 wrote:03 library:03 library:03 differences:04 structure:06 programmers:06 benjamin:07 i'm:07 reasonable:09 think:11 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk skaller wrote: > Portable C++ is easy to write. I'm thinking of the differences between the Unix and the Win32 APIs. That's one kind of library incompatibility that has caused programmers no end of pain. (And don't forget that Microsoft still has its own C++ string class.) That's the sort of pain I think we can avoid in the OCaml world by putting in place a reasonable community structure. 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