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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml vs Ada and/or GUI options

On 09/12/2013 04:57 PM, Lukasz Stafiniak wrote:
> I think he is referring to "intellisense", on which there has been a
> steady progress, but which is perhaps not yet easy to use out-of-the-box
> (there are multiple pieces that one has to integrate with one's
> toolchain and IDE, i.e. Emacs).

Oh that, the thing which makes developpers 100x less productive? 
Luckily, OCaml developpers are usually 1000x more efficient than the 
average, so they are still 10x more productive overall when programming 
GUIs.  This is probably what Jon meant when he wrote:

 > Objectively, OCaml is extremely good for GUI programming.


-- Alain