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 JAA29086; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:20:26 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA29269 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:20:25 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from gnu.in-berlin.de (gnu.in-berlin.de [192.109.42.4]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f6O7KOb29991 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:20:24 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from hirsch.in-berlin.de (root@hirsch.colt.in-berlin.de [213.61.118.6]) by gnu.in-berlin.de (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f6O7KNG10989; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:20:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver@first.in-berlin.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by hirsch.in-berlin.de (8.11.1/8.11.1/Debian 8.11.0-6) with UUCP id f6O7K2u02526; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:20:02 +0200 X-Envelope-From: oliver@first.in-berlin.de X-Envelope-To: caml-list@inria.fr Received: from localhost (oliver@localhost) by first.in-berlin.de (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA00525; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:06:43 +0200 Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:06:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: Oliver Bandel To: Ian Zimmerman cc: OCAML Subject: Re: [Caml-list] cdk In-Reply-To: <863d7nnou4.fsf@itz.dsl.speakeasy.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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 ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr