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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next prev parent 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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