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From: "Nathaniel Gray" <n8gray@gmail.com>
To: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: "Jon Harrop" <jon@ffconsultancy.com>, caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Which syntax to teach ?
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 09:08:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aee06c9e0711020908x6270dac4y94c1335a65a5c5ac@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1193276894.5755.88.camel@rosella.wigram>

I'm using a Motif editor on OS X, so GTK would be a big step up,
particularly if it used native widgets!  ;^)

-n8

On 10/24/07, skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 00:10 +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 October 2007 23:52:54 Nathaniel Gray wrote:
> > > I know it seems silly to devote so much energy to debating editors,
> >
> > On the contrary, I find it amazing that there is no slick editor written in
> > OCaml to let people write simple OCaml programs with an integrated top-level,
> > build system, graphics libraries and packages for the main distros. I think
> > that would be enormously beneficial for all newbies and could easily be
> > available for Linux and Mac OS X as well as using the latest ocamlbuild,
> > camlp4 3.10, LablGTK2 and so on.
> >
> > In fact, I would say that OCaml is ideally suited to this task because it
> > falls in the metaprogramming category!
>
> Unfortunately, UI access is the problem. Who wants a GTK editor on
> Windows? On OSX? On KDE?
>
>
> --
> John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
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-- 
>>>-- Nathaniel Gray -- Caltech Computer Science ------>
>>>-- Mojave Project -- http://mojave.cs.caltech.edu -->


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-02 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-24 11:36 David Teller
2007-10-24 13:18 ` [Caml-list] " Loup Vaillant
2007-10-24 13:24 ` Peng Zang
2007-10-24 13:54   ` Julien Moutinho
2007-10-24 17:23 ` Andrej Bauer
2007-10-24 19:05   ` Adrien
2007-10-25  5:14     ` Aleks Bromfield
2007-10-30 16:26     ` Chung-chieh Shan
2007-10-30 16:38       ` [Caml-list] " Brian Hurt
2007-10-30 16:59         ` Chung-chieh Shan
2007-10-30 17:08         ` [Caml-list] " Edgar Friendly
2007-10-30 17:56           ` skaller
2007-10-30 19:02             ` Vincent Aravantinos
2007-10-30 18:50           ` William D. Neumann
2007-10-30 21:45           ` Eliot Handelman
2007-10-30 18:56       ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-10-25  9:43   ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2007-10-24 22:52 ` Nathaniel Gray
2007-10-24 23:10   ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-25  1:48     ` skaller
2007-10-25  2:02       ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-25  9:49       ` Richard Jones
2007-10-25 11:32         ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2007-10-25 11:52           ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-10-25 12:39           ` Richard Jones
2007-10-25 12:59         ` Michael Ekstrand
2007-10-25 13:39           ` Loup Vaillant
2007-10-25 20:32             ` Andrej Bauer
2007-10-25 22:11               ` Loup Vaillant
2007-10-25 15:14           ` Richard Jones
2007-10-25 18:47             ` Re : " Adrien
2007-11-02 16:08       ` Nathaniel Gray [this message]
2007-10-26 11:11     ` David Teller
2007-10-24 23:02 ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-26 11:09   ` David Teller

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