From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Sympa-To: caml-list@inria.fr Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id p7OF9M9G008585 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:09:25 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AmQHAD0TVU5QW+UMgWdsb2JhbABCmGKPDQYCFAEBFiYlgUABAQQBOk8BCiElDwEEKBsZh3ECArwPgkSEBQSHYZgyhB8 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.68,275,1312149600"; d="scan'208";a="106500160" Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 24 Aug 2011 17:09:24 +0200 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QwF50-0000UT-1D for caml-list@inria.fr; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:09:22 +0200 Received: from 174.121.218.178 ([174.121.218.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:09:21 +0200 Received: from jeffsco by 174.121.218.178 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:09:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Jeffrey Scofield Date: 24 Aug 2011 10:09:03 -0500 Sender: jeffsco@pse.psellos.com Message-ID: References: <15991D0B-B2FB-47A6-8196-B149257F49B7@psellos.com> <20110824091731.GA2598@cyclops> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 174.121.218.178 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-Validation-by: jeffsco@psellos.com Subject: [Caml-list] Re: OpenGL ES for iPhone Simulator; working example app sashan writes: > > I'd be happy to hear from anybody interested in OCaml on iOS. > > > Thanks for this - will endeavour to look more closely into it. > I'm curious as to whether Apple would approve an app written in OCaml > for the app store. I was under the impression that they wouldn't. Apple dropped their restrictions on languages for iOS around a year ago. The press release is still available here: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/09/09statement.html We (Psellos) are selling an app written in OCaml in the app store right now, in fact. It's called Cassino, and plays a card game. At the risk of too much self-promotion, here is a link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cassino/id411381417 We've had no trouble getting versions of the app approved by Apple. (Granted, we're not a big enough player to merit a lot of scrutiny.) When we started porting OCaml to iPhone, it was with the attitude of doing something slightly crazy, but it has worked out pretty well. I think OCaml has real advantages for writing iOS apps, and it has also been more fun and interesting than the usual coding for the "mobile space". Jeffrey