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 JAA04992; Tue, 25 May 2004 09:27:06 +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 JAA03603 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 09:27:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail03.powweb.com (mail03.powweb.com [66.152.97.36]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4P7R4SH024372 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 09:27:04 +0200 Received: from abc.se (c-888ae253.09-253-7570701.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se [83.226.138.136]) by mail03.powweb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F5F415DE4 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 00:27:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <40B2F540.9070702@abc.se> Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 09:26:56 +0200 From: Mattias Waldau User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: re: [Caml-list] Large projects in OCaml Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 40B2F548.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; mattias:01 waldau:01 mattias:01 waldau:01 caml-list:01 spreadsheets:99 gui:01 workarounds:01 cygwin:01 ocamldebug:01 debugger:01 gpl:01 slower:01 resonable:01 ocaml:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk ExcelEverywhere, which converts Excel spreadsheets into web pages where JavaScript does all the calculation is written in Ocaml. The program consists of 40,000 lines of Ocaml, a 10,000 lines of JavaScript and Excel VBA. We do no GUI in Ocaml, everything is done in VBA. The ocaml-part is just a native code compiled win32-executable. We had very few problems with bugs with the ocaml-implementation, and always found simple workarounds. Development is done on cygwin and linux, since we really like ocamldebug, the debugger that can execute backwards. One big problem is that many of the good ocaml libraries are GPL, and cannot be used by ISV. For example, we had to implement our own XML-library. If your datastructures are large, I would not recommend delivering byte-compiled code. It is noticable slower and easily runs out of memory. If you use resonable datastructure, speed will not be a problem. Good luck, Mattias ------------------- 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