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 WAA21224; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 22:56:07 +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 WAA21785 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 22:56:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.203]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3OKu3YM019809 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 22:56:04 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.200] (ppp119-113.lns1.syd2.internode.on.net [150.101.119.113]) by smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i3OKtuk2031142 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2004 06:25:57 +0930 (CST) Subject: [Caml-list] Felix 1.0.6 released From: skaller Reply-To: skaller@users.sourceforge.net To: caml-list Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1082840154.9537.148.camel@pelican.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-4) Date: 25 Apr 2004 06:55:56 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; sourceforge:01 sourceforge:01 flx:01 cygwin:01 python:01 3.07:01 algol:01 recursion:01 python:01 retaining:01 event-driven:01 model:01 frameworks:01 dispatching:01 model:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk I have created a new tarball for version 1.0.6 of the Felix programming language here: http://felix.sourceforge.net/download.html http://felix.sourceforge.net/flx_1.0.6_src.tgz and would appreciate if a few people would try to build it on any Unix like platform to help iron out build bugs. So far it has built on Linux and OSX, but there are still likely to be some g++ and libc portability issues. I have one report of a Cygwin build of an earlier version. Requires: Python 1.5.2 or above, Ocaml 3.07 or current CVS version, C++ compiler (preferably recent g++). Native code version should build if available, bytecode is then optional. Bytecode should build if native code compiler isn't available. A native Windows port should be possible but would require a considerable investment of time and effort at this stage. Brief description: Felix is an Algol like strongly typed procedural programming language with a strong purely functional subsystem, including first class functions, pattern matching, variants, recursion, and (currently only) compile time parametric polymorphism. A scripting harness is used to provide convenience of rapid prototyping engines like Python, but the output is fully compiled binary not bytecode. Version 1.0.6 now supports both dynamic loading and static linkage. Felix uses arbitrary first class existing C/C++ types and functions as primitives and therefore does not require any complex library bindings. Cooperative multi-tasking is built into the system allowing code to be written in a threaded style whilst retaining the the high performance of an event-driven programming model. The target market is: middleware applications, existing C/C++ frameworks, systems which require extensive binding to existing C/C++ libraries, and those which require a high performance event driven dispatching model. Numerical programming may also benefit from the expanded typing and seamless binding technology. -- John Skaller, mailto:skaller@users.sf.net voice: 061-2-9660-0850, snail: PO BOX 401 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia Checkout the Felix programming language http://felix.sf.net ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners