From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: weis Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA06886 for caml-redist@pauillac.inria.fr; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:13:12 +0200 (MET DST) Resent-Message-Id: <200004200813.KAA06886@pauillac.inria.fr> 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 EAA03346; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 04:59:05 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ontil.ihep.su (ontil.ihep.su [194.190.161.63]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA25016; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 04:59:02 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (vsl@localhost) by ontil.ihep.su (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA08565; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 07:01:58 +0400 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 07:01:58 +0400 (MSD) From: Vitaly Lugovsky To: Max Skaller cc: Francois Pottier , caml-list@inria.fr, Pierre.Weis@inria.fr, caml-redistribution@pauillac.inria.fr Subject: Re: When functional languages can be accepted by industry? In-Reply-To: <38FE60E7.5D117555@in.ot.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Resent-From: weis@pauillac.inria.fr Resent-Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:13:12 +0200 Resent-To: caml-redist@pauillac.inria.fr On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Max Skaller wrote: > Vitaly Lugovsky wrote: > > P.S. Maybe, all that we need, is a RAD tool for ocaml? It can > > look like a better module finder ("module name" -> "file name" is not > > a good idea. Paths in Java is much better), and a lot of reusable > > modules for common tasks (database, GUI)... > > There already is one: the lablbrowser. It's quite > good functionally -- but the interface sucks. But module naming system is left unchanged there... So, it's not a RAD tool. I talk about RAD as a "rapid application development tool", not as a "GUI IDE". I tried findlib, but it also not an ideal, it's too complex and is not well integrated with Ocaml system itself. :( -- V.S.Lugovsky aka Mauhuur (http://ontil.ihep.su/~vsl) (UIN=45482254)