From: Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com>
To: Alexandre Pilkiewicz <alexandre.pilkiewicz@polytechnique.org>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Smoke Vector Graphics: source code licenses for sale
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:53:25 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47337745.3050203@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711082124.21175.alexandre.pilkiewicz@polytechnique.org>
Alexandre Pilkiewicz wrote:
> Do you think it may be possible one day for OCaml to have a normalisation,
> like Haskell had in 1998, and if it's allready the case, where can I find
> it ?
>
I don't see the need for formalizing the OCaml language - If we tried to
characterize what the current compiler did, we'd fail in many many
details. And if we tried to write a spec independent of the compiler,
all of a sudden we'd just introduce hundreds of bugs into the compiler
because of its deviation from the spec.
Formal specifications have use in strictly "research" languages, but I
see their ability to stifle growth and improvement as more negative than
their ability to help people understand the proper operation of OCaml.
E.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-08 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-04 12:01 Jon Harrop
2007-11-04 15:06 ` [Caml-list] " Oliver Bandel
2007-11-04 16:12 ` skaller
2007-11-04 16:48 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-04 17:45 ` skaller
2007-11-04 21:29 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-04 17:47 ` David Allsopp
2007-11-04 21:25 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-04 16:58 ` Industry looks for commercial OCaml support? Oliver Bandel
2007-11-04 17:52 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-11-04 21:39 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-05 3:32 ` skaller
2007-11-05 3:58 ` OT: Commercial Support and Programming Languages Robert Fischer
2007-11-05 5:04 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-11-07 15:55 ` Alan Falloon
2007-11-07 16:07 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-11-07 16:35 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-07 16:41 ` Jon Harrop
2007-11-07 17:16 ` Edgar Friendly
2007-11-07 18:46 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2007-11-07 19:28 ` Richard Jones
2007-11-05 7:22 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-11-05 5:05 ` [Caml-list] Industry looks for commercial OCaml support? Jon Harrop
2007-11-04 18:29 ` [Caml-list] Smoke Vector Graphics: source code licenses for sale Vincent Hanquez
2007-11-08 18:28 ` Alexandre Pilkiewicz
2007-11-08 19:09 ` Luc Maranget
2007-11-08 20:24 ` Alexandre Pilkiewicz
2007-11-08 20:53 ` Edgar Friendly [this message]
2007-11-08 23:04 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-11-08 19:14 ` Brian Hurt
2007-11-08 23:08 ` Richard Jones
2007-11-09 12:16 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-11-09 12:31 ` Richard Jones
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