From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Martin Chabr <martin_chabr@yahoo.de>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Ant: [Caml-list] The "Objective" part of Objective Caml
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:55:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87acggxguw.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051107214110.46596.qmail@web26805.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> (Martin Chabr's message of "Mon, 7 Nov 2005 22:41:10 +0100 (CET)")
* Martin Chabr:
> --- Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>
>> I was a bit surprised when I started playing with Caml objects. I
>> couldn't find a definite reference, but it seems that the object
>> system was indeed inspired by the "Objective" family of languages
>> (the "evolutionary approach" to add a Smalltalk-like object system
>> described by Brad Cox in the 80s, later picked up by NeXT). Is
>> this really the case? Or is the similarity just a coincidence?
>
> The object oriented part of OCaml is roughly speaking
> just as capable as that of Python, C++, Java, C# etc.
Sure, I don't doubt that. I'm interested in the genesis of the object
system, though, and if the structural similarity to the Objective C
effort by Brad Cox is just a coincidence, or was deliberate.
(There is a significant difference, though, because Objective Caml
uses static type checks to ensure that every message has a receiver.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-07 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-04 22:45 Florian Weimer
2005-11-07 21:41 ` Ant: [Caml-list] " Martin Chabr
2005-11-07 21:55 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2005-11-08 1:47 ` skaller
2005-11-08 2:15 ` Brian Hurt
2005-11-08 7:15 ` Daniel Bünzli
2005-11-08 15:02 ` Brian Hurt
2005-11-08 15:39 ` Alexander Fuchs
2005-11-08 15:42 ` Matt Gushee
2005-11-08 15:56 ` Michael Wohlwend
2005-11-08 18:16 ` brogoff
2005-11-08 22:04 ` Brian Hurt
2005-11-08 23:40 ` brogoff
2005-11-09 9:00 ` skaller
2005-11-11 15:28 ` Florian Weimer
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