From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA10103; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:52:00 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA10545 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:51:59 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from oxy.exomi.com (fa-3-0-0.fw.exomi.com [217.169.64.99]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i387qqjq023787 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:52:52 +0200 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oxy.exomi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17AD51A6B87; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:52:50 +0300 (EEST) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ocaml Mailing List , Issac Trotts From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Dynamically evaluating OCaml code Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:52:49 +0300 To: Brian Hurt X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) X-Miltered: at nez-perce by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 dynamically:01 pragmatic:01 pragmatic:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 supported:01 native:02 wrote:03 macos:04 intermediate:05 cvs:05 platforms:05 64,:06 supports:06 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 130 On Apr 8, 2004, at 9:24 AM, Brian Hurt wrote: > As a side note, I don't see Ocaml as a science project. It's a > pragmatic > language, in that it doesn't automatically assume it knows what's best, To add another point why OCaml is a pragmatic and usable language - OCaml has far better platform support than some even more established languages. It's the only language I might choose for my personal projects other than C/C++ that supports native code for all of the relevant platforms I currently have access to. I have FreeBSD/amd64, FreeBSD/x86, Linux/x86 and MacOS X machines, all of which run OCaml fine, and use various machines at work that should be supported (although the last time I tried, the CVS version built and worked on Tru64 but not Solaris/SPARC or HP-UX/PA). Of course I'm not counting languages that use C or C++ as an intermediate language. ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners