From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED8BEBBAF for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:19:33 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEACUTL0vCX7kj/2dsb2JhbADVWIQuBA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,431,1257116400"; d="scan'208";a="52599139" Received: from pc-dmz-1.mis.mpg.de ([194.95.185.35]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 21 Dec 2009 15:19:06 +0100 Received: from pc141-88.mis.mpg.de (HELO [172.19.89.136]) ([141.5.26.88]) by pc-dmz-1.mis.mpg.de with ESMTP; 21 Dec 2009 15:19:05 +0100 Subject: general question, was Re: OCaml is broken Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Keyan In-Reply-To: <20091221152631.35b3a2eb@pbmiha.malagasy.com> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:19:05 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <8D2436E9-A41B-48D4-B844-A82E57D47CA2@pulsschlag.net> References: <4B2D2BC1.6020204@msu.edu> <200912200443.57698.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <200912201938.06729.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <20091221152631.35b3a2eb@pbmiha.malagasy.com> To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 planing:01 ocaml:01 extensively:01 compile:01 dependency:01 functional:02 functional:02 programming:03 programming:03 discussion:06 discussion:06 interpreter:07 written:07 curious:09 Hi, i have a large project written in C++, for which i am planing to write = add-ons and tools in ocaml, e.g. different tools to analyse my code = (dependency stuff), an interpreter for a script-language i plan to = include, etc, etc. form my time at the uni i remembered that ocaml = allows to compile libraries which can be included in c/c++ program, and = i know people who use it extensively in other projects. therefore, i = decided to give ocaml a try. i like functional programming, and my first = steps with ocaml are very promising. following this discussion, i am not so sure anymore, if ocaml is a good = decision. may be i got this discussion wrong, but if ocaml is dying out, = i might have to look for another functional programming language to use = with my project. please dont take this email as an offence. i am just curious. at this = point, i can still easily look for an alternative to ocaml, so its best = to ask now. regards, keyan=