skaller a écrit :
> On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 20:44 +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 08:43:09PM +1000, skaller wrote:
>>     
>>> Another *famous* example is 'readline()', the code that
>>> does line editing for bash. Why is Ocaml's top level
>>> so crappy, with no editing? Because of readline()'s GPL
>>>       
>> Surely that's not a good reason anymore; there are non-GPL
>> workalikes to readline().
>>     
>
> Well one might ask Inria why they don't use it?
>
> [BTW: Python does, yet some maintains FFAU licence]
>
>   
There is even one (http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/ledit)  written in
OCaml ... and easy to add to any OCaml
program ...

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