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From: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
To: Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] adding a scripting language to an ocaml program
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Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com> writes:

> Has much work been done on adding a scripting language to an OCaml
> program? I googled about a bit, but no one seems to be even talking
> about this - for example, if I wanted to do something emacslike with a
> core in OCaml and (ideally) some sort of scheme as a scripting engine
> in place of elisp, would that be easily doable?
>
> martin

Yes. In bytecode you can run an ocaml toplevel and use ocaml as
scripting lanugage. Or you can implement a scheme interpreter quite
easily in ocaml. It is a verry simple language.

MfG
        Goswin