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 KAA11359; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:15:55 +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 KAA12719 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:15:53 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from bob.west.spy.net (mail.west.spy.net [66.149.231.226]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i388Ghjq026932 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:16:46 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.50] (dustinti.west.spy.net [192.168.1.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by bob.west.spy.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C8F66008; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 01:15:44 -0700 (PDT) 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: Brian Hurt , Ocaml Mailing List , Issac Trotts From: Dustin Sallings Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Dynamically evaluating OCaml code Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 01:15:18 -0700 To: Ville-Pertti Keinonen 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 sunos:01 ocamlopt:01 cae:99 compiler:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 supported:01 her:97 native:02 wrote:03 fingerprint:04 macos:04 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 132 On Apr 8, 2004, at 0:52, Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote: > 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). I've got a recent compiler built for SunOS 4.1.4 (sun4c). That was a pretty big bonus for me. It took a little hacking, but ocamlopt works. Unfortunately, I end up doing a lot of my professional work in platform independent languages like Java (a recent enough-to-be-useful version of which only runs on a few of my computers). -- SPY My girlfriend asked me which one I like better. pub 1024/3CAE01D5 1994/11/03 Dustin Sallings | Key fingerprint = 87 02 57 08 02 D0 DA D6 C8 0F 3E 65 51 98 D8 BE L_______________________ I hope the answer won't upset her. ____________ ------------------- 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