From: Vincent Aravantinos <vincent.aravantinos@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Kimmitt <jonathan@kimmitt.co.uk>
Cc: Gurus Ocaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Type Safety comes to the iPad
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 11:01:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F497F143-99D8-4506-BDEA-47CFF730939F@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48266A94-EE4F-4C15-AD75-86BD49FA20C8@gmail.com>
Something I don't understand: is the app itself written in ocaml?
Le 9 nov. 10 à 10:39, Vincent Aravantinos a écrit :
> Wow! This seems hugely interesting to me.
> Actually I've been wondering a while to know if I would buy an ipad,
> and my conclusion was "only if I can do Ocaml on it".
> Can you report a bit more on your experience ?
> Which tools did you use? How convenient it is? What drawback did you
> encounter?
>
> Cheers,
> Vincent
>
> Le 9 nov. 10 à 10:31, Jonathan Kimmitt a écrit :
>
>> I thought you might be interested to know that my new OCAML App for
>> the iPad was published
>> on the iTunes Store yesterday. I believe this is a significant
>> achievement given the notorious
>> reluctance of Apple to embrace languages other than C/obj-C/C++ and
>> I would hope it would
>> promote wider dissemination of type safety.
>>
>> The real win would be if the new paradigm was accepted for teaching
>> the new generation of
>> students etc, which would require greater acceptance by potential
>> employers which is a bit
>> of a chicken/egg scenario.
>>
>> Anyway I am inordinately proud of my new publication and if you
>> know anybody who has an iPad,
>> please let them know about it.
>>
>> http://itunes.apple.com/app/ocamlexample/id396515573?mt=8#
>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-09 10:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-09 9:31 Jonathan Kimmitt
2010-11-09 9:39 ` [Caml-list] " Vincent Aravantinos
2010-11-09 10:01 ` Vincent Aravantinos [this message]
2010-11-09 10:30 ` Jonathan Kimmitt
2010-11-09 10:54 ` Jonathan Kimmitt
2010-11-09 10:56 ` Daniel Bünzli
2010-11-09 9:53 ` Sylvain Le Gall
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