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 QAA03190; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:30:43 +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 QAA03239 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:30:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from relay.rinet.ru (relay.rinet.ru [195.54.192.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f9QEUfv11376 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:30:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by relay.rinet.ru (8.11.6/8.11.4) with UUCP id f9QEUda14150 for caml-list@inria.fr; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:30:39 +0400 (MSD) X-Envelope-To: caml-list@inria.fr Received: from bely.stormoff (BELY) [192.168.0.10] by stormoff with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 15x7or-0000fc-00; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:18:45 +0400 X-Comment-To: Cuihtlauac ALVARADO To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Whither the Caml Consortium? References: <3BD58FBC.24509.6BA76944@localhost> <20011024161824.F10047@rd.francetelecom.fr> From: Dmitry Bely Date: 26 Oct 2001 18:16:58 +0400 In-Reply-To: <20011024161824.F10047@rd.francetelecom.fr> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Academic Rigor) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Cuihtlauac ALVARADO writes: > > Regarding a killer-application in Ocaml to show that Ocaml is best, we have > > to find a program that MANY people need. Just look how difficult it is to > > create a good email program for Linux (Evolution is at last getting ready). > > Such an application could be built using Ocaml instead. It would work, no > > buffer overuns would reduce the number of security glitches. The only > > problem is that almost all killer application has graphical user interfaces, > > and I still haven't seen a good looking Ocaml-program (any pointers?). > > Just a 30 seconds dream : a small, fast and robust web > browser... Wouldn't you like to have a GC in Netscape ? Wouldn't you > like to use powerfull tools able to program a defensive parsing for > all the HTTP/Javascript garbage you can find out there ? Isn'it what > *every* people need ? > > I can dream no other definitive killer app for Ocaml. A Web browser written in OCaml already exists, although its development seems to be frozen: http://pauillac.inria.fr/mmm/ Unfortunately, no Win32 version is there, so I do not know how small, fast and robust it is (and compatible with current Internet standards, I would add myself). Hope to hear from you soon, Dmitry ------------------- 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