From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB86DBBAF for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 10:53:33 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkMGAFOo2ExQW+UMgWdsb2JhbACUHo4AFQEBFiIivgyFSgSKVQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,174,1288566000"; d="scan'208";a="77510739" Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 09 Nov 2010 10:53:33 +0100 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PFktP-0006Ex-RH for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:53:31 +0100 Received: from avelizy-155-1-88-87.w90-2.abo.wanadoo.fr ([90.2.95.87]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:53:31 +0100 Received: from sylvain by avelizy-155-1-88-87.w90-2.abo.wanadoo.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:53:31 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: caml-list@inria.fr From: Sylvain Le Gall Subject: Re: Type Safety comes to the iPad Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 09:53:20 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: avelizy-155-1-88-87.w90-2.abo.wanadoo.fr User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) X-Spam: no; 0.00; le-gall:01 ocaml:01 itunes:98 embrace:98 itunes:98 wrote:01 languages:03 let:03 wider:05 anyway:05 anybody:07 achievement:08 teaching:08 real:10 paradigm:11 Hello, On 09-11-2010, Jonathan Kimmitt wrote: > I thought you might be interested to know that my new OCAML App for the iPad was published > on the iTunes Store yesterday. I believe this is a significant achievement given the notorious > reluctance of Apple to embrace languages other than C/obj-C/C++ and I would hope it would > promote wider dissemination of type safety. > > The real win would be if the new paradigm was accepted for teaching the new generation of > students etc, which would require greater acceptance by potential employers which is a bit > of a chicken/egg scenario. > > Anyway I am inordinately proud of my new publication and if you know anybody who has an iPad, > please let them know about it. > > http://itunes.apple.com/app/ocamlexample/id396515573?mt=8# > Congratulation, this is a really nice work. Regards, Sylvain Le Gall