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From: Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
To: Ian Zimmerman <itz@speakeasy.org>
Cc: OCAML <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] cdk
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:06:43 +0200 (MET DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1010724090216.470B-100000@first.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <863d7nnou4.fsf@itz.dsl.speakeasy.net>



On 23 Jul 2001, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

> 
> Oliver> Is the cdk (OCaml development kit) a "planned for the future"
> Oliver> and it was an accident, to find it via google?  The date of
> Oliver> the dfocument was very new (MAy 2001) and it seems to be not
> Oliver> ready (Preface without text).
> 
> Oliver> When will it be official available? (Or ist now?)
> 
> AFAIK it is available as beta now, but I don't use it.
> 
> Oliver> It looks very interesting; such a big library seems to give
> Oliver> massive power for the OCaml-programmer.
> 
> Note that the cdk doesn't offer any new libraries; it is merely a
> compilation of existing libraries and tools in a single package, the
> kind that seems to make business folks happy.

It makes OCaml-newbies (like me) happy too, because it's not so
easy to find a lot of libraries out there.
And why to reinvent the wheel?

What/where are the "original" libraries of the cdk-compilation?
As a person new to OCaml (and FPL in general) it's necessary
to see the whole at a glance.

> 
> Oliver> Is this (cdk) the end of Perl? ;-)
> 
> Maybe, but not for technical reasons; there have been hardly any
> technical reasons to use Perl for a long time, if only because of
> Python.  Rather, it is for social reasons - see above.

Hmhhh "shorter development cycles" (e.g. Perl vs. C)
is this a social reason?


Ciao,
   Oliver

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-24  7:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-23 21:55 Oliver Bandel
2001-07-24  0:38 ` Ian Zimmerman
2001-07-24  7:06   ` Oliver Bandel [this message]
2001-07-24  7:36     ` Sven
2001-07-26 20:07     ` John Max Skaller
2001-07-24  2:47 ` John Eikenberry
2001-07-26 19:19   ` John Max Skaller
2001-07-27 16:56     ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2001-07-28  2:49       ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2001-07-24 13:50 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2001-07-26 20:46 Krishnaswami, Neel
2001-07-27  7:16 ` David Mentre
2001-07-28  2:44 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2003-06-15 13:56 adc
2003-06-15 13:30 ` Maxence Guesdon
2003-06-15 14:28 ` Alan Schmitt
2003-06-15 14:50 adc

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