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 mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50E2BBC5B for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 00:18:02 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjICADqL4UtKfVI0mGdsb2JhbACQeYxSCBUBAQEBAQgJDAcRIq4UggCFNy6ITgEBAwWFDgQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.52,336,1270418400"; d="scan'208";a="50559008" Received: from mail-ww0-f52.google.com ([74.125.82.52]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 06 May 2010 00:18:02 +0200 Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so435555wwi.39 for ; Wed, 05 May 2010 15:18:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=0Inb7nQ/bjXYJIQ3M/y25qAcrAFS7210FizsFm6IwW4=; b=xu+feIvaOK7TU+FNkNQB2aQFERdgImXa1uBEiKLWhFaq++kooWcO8GmbbtSZB2FNaz /Kgxnq+IWhzTVWRJXcyEt7TjXjFifRyHVq2gQruXzC0eyI7aACrsvE64lQVhnupaKkQE sQxMIua7C8YDHIzu8M0bkAlbJVq1zT+3Pj5JY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=gJU6cfkiGQiE8LfDPnroAXxjDomCAPjR88fmZ9RjzxBoqlzBze/Zo88cd8lBOMYtJX eS1rjCTZfsZj+vWtYfH5NkxuN9/MF3m6LHjxV8P+SV8mFyEf/unR5Fno+UujgyF5hPY0 NfudCFil4nK5S/paFK9ctkhiheawdYzhmzDnM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.184.135 with SMTP id s7mr9720244wem.212.1273097881757; Wed, 05 May 2010 15:18:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.28.72 with HTTP; Wed, 5 May 2010 15:18:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <951508.20587.qm@web58708.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <951508.20587.qm@web58708.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 18:18:01 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Caml-list] about OcamIL From: ben kuin To: Ed Keith , caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 guis:01 ocaml:01 eray:01 ozkural:01 eray:01 10,:98 blog:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 unix:01 unix:01 caml-list:01 native:03 seems:03 keith, a few thoughts, ... before I've worked with linux I was a windows guy. I remember the day (forgot the context though) when I installed the ocaml package on my dell/windows-xp/laptop (yuk) . Since the workflow on windows is very gui centric, you can't help to get very sensible how a particular app looks and feels. I can tell you those "weird" guis (tcl/tk?) scared the hell out of me and I hoped I could get rid of the stuff without breaking the registry :-). Anyway, I think in order to provide something that the next windows user would like to work with, all the ocaml gui apps should be feel very much more native. Maybe the time would be better invested by an effort to port Ocaml-Batteries to F#. I mean why not? On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Ed Keith wrote: > --- On Wed, 5/5/10, Eray Ozkural wrote: > >> Or use the real ocaml on a real OS >> (^_^) >> > > I do not understand UNIX bigotry. > > Yes, Unix is technically superior to Windows. But Plan 9 is technically s= uperior to Unix. But I doubt Eray is running Plan 9. > > More computers run Windows than all other OS's combined. If you want a la= rge user base you need to support Windows. If you do not care about the siz= e of your user base, write for Plan 9. > > Personalty I try to support as many systems as practical. > > It bothers me that the Ocaml community seems to consider Windows develope= rs as second class citizens. Until this changes Ocaml will never be a main = stream language. F# may eat it's lunch. But F# is tied to Windows, Ocaml ha= s the potential to be multi-platform. I just wish it would live up to this = potential. > > =A0 -EdK > > Ed Keith > e_d_k@yahoo.com > > Blog: edkeith.blogspot.com > > > > > >