From: "Benjamin C. Pierce" <bcpierce@saul.cis.upenn.edu>
To: "emil artin" <emil.artin@web.de>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml for system programming?
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 13:10:42 EDT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9478.1000228242@saul.cis.upenn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 11 Sep 2001 18:33:24 +0200. <200109111633.f8BGXOx23823@mailgate5.cinetic.de>
> Is it reasonable to use OCaml for (low-level) system programming?
> I have implemented some tools for filesystem maintenance
> (things like resizing, ...) in C. As a challenging exercise
> (for an OCaml newbie) I planned to reimplement my tools in
> OCaml. But I don't know if it is managable at all!!
For at least certain sorts of systems programming, OCaml is wonderful.
For example, we've been very happy with it for implementing Unison (a
pretty serious file synchronizer, including a home-grown RPC
implementation and lots of low-level system call twiddling). It's also
been used by projects like Ensemble, with good results. I wouldn't be at
all surprised if you could implement most or all of an industrial
strength filesystem in OCaml. (The foxnet project at CMU, though, raises
a few caveats -- they had quite a bit of trouble with things like the
need to have multiple views of packet headers. The Cyclone project [Jim
and Morrisett] is an interesting alternative approach that tries to
address some of these head on.)
Benjamin
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2001-09-11 16:33 emil artin
2001-09-11 17:10 ` Benjamin C. Pierce [this message]
2001-09-11 23:02 ` SooHyoung Oh
2001-09-12 8:30 ` David Mentre
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