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 CAA22114; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 02:38:32 +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 CAA22052 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 02:38:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with SMTP id f6O0cTL20735 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 02:38:30 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 19735 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2001 00:38:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO itz.dsl.speakeasy.net) ([216.254.11.87]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 24 Jul 2001 00:38:28 -0000 Received: from itz by itz.dsl.speakeasy.net with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15OqDT-00005t-00 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 17:38:27 -0700 To: caml-list@inria.fr (OCAML) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] cdk References: From: Ian Zimmerman Date: 23 Jul 2001 17:38:27 -0700 In-Reply-To: Oliver Bandel's message of "Mon, 23 Jul 2001 23:55:22 +0200 (MET DST)" Message-ID: <863d7nnou4.fsf@itz.dsl.speakeasy.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Oliver> Is the cdk (OCaml development kit) a "planned for the future" Oliver> and it was an accident, to find it via google? The date of Oliver> the dfocument was very new (MAy 2001) and it seems to be not Oliver> ready (Preface without text). Oliver> When will it be official available? (Or ist now?) AFAIK it is available as beta now, but I don't use it. Oliver> It looks very interesting; such a big library seems to give Oliver> massive power for the OCaml-programmer. Note that the cdk doesn't offer any new libraries; it is merely a compilation of existing libraries and tools in a single package, the kind that seems to make business folks happy. Oliver> Is this (cdk) the end of Perl? ;-) Maybe, but not for technical reasons; there have been hardly any technical reasons to use Perl for a long time, if only because of Python. Rather, it is for social reasons - see above. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive. GPG pub key: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr