From: "Yaron Minsky" <yminsky@cs.cornell.edu>
To: "Jon Harrop" <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Saving the OCaml interpreter state
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:52:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <891bd3390704121652y1b5c43c1i3e6c7990f3f17c6b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704121927.13895.jon@ffconsultancy.com>
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You should check with someone who knows better, but I suspect that if you
become a member of the OCaml consortium (which is fairly cheap) you would
have the rights to do what you propose.
y
On 4/12/07, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 12 April 2007 16:53, Harrison, John R wrote:
> > | A new version of Poly ML also doesn't have the persistent storage
> >
> > system.
> >
> > Thanks; I didn't know that, and it comes as quite a surprise given
> > Poly's history.
> >
> > Still, my question about OCaml stands. More specifically, I want to
> > know whether the facility to save and restore state doesn't exist
> > because
> >
> > * None of the main OCaml developers particularly care about it
> >
> > or
> >
> > * There are non-trivial technical problems implementing it.
>
> Like Michael, I am also not going to answer your question (sorry!) but can
> I
> just say that, as a commercial developer, there would be significant
> incentive to write a killer IDE for OCaml if the current top-level was
> free
> for commercial use, e.g. part of the stdlib.
>
> Having been playing with F# recently, I'm starting to appreciate some of
> the
> features afforded by a decent IDE. However, both OCaml and F# lack
> features
> found in the other and, more importantly, lack many features that could be
> hugely beneficial, particularly to users of the interactive systems.
>
> Marshalling top-level state is one such feature.
>
> --
> Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
> OCaml for Scientists
> http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-12 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-10 22:08 Harrison, John R
2007-04-12 12:27 ` [Caml-list] " Michael Nedzelsky
2007-04-12 15:53 ` Harrison, John R
2007-04-12 18:27 ` Jon Harrop
2007-04-12 23:52 ` Yaron Minsky [this message]
2007-04-13 19:07 ` Harrison, John R
2007-04-13 19:38 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2007-04-13 20:27 ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-04-14 11:59 ` Michael Nedzelsky
2007-04-22 10:00 ` Xavier Leroy
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