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From: Dave Mason <dmason@sarg.Ryerson.CA>
To: Andreas Rossberg <rossberg@ps.uni-sb.de>
Cc: OCAML <caml-list@inria.fr>, John Skaller <skaller@maxtal.com.au>
Subject: Re: convincing management to switch to Ocaml
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 15:51:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199908281951.PAA18613@sarg.Ryerson.CA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Aug 1999 12:00:34 +0200." <37C661C2.D374D8F9@ps.uni-sb.de>

>>>>> On Fri, 27 Aug 1999 12:00:34 +0200, Andreas Rossberg <rossberg@ps.uni-sb.de> said:

>[many things I agree with!]

> A document defining the language more formally than the user manual
> would definitely be a good thing. If a standard is needed then one
> has to stick to Standard ML for now, I'm afraid.

Would it really be beyond a Master's student working under Xavier (or
other CAML guru) to translate the SML formal spec into a CAML formal
spec?  Or at least a PhD student.

I think it would be a Very Good Thing!  (And would make the semantic
differences between the languages very explicit.)

../Dave




  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-08-30 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-07-28 14:47 STARYNKEVITCH Basile
1999-07-30  9:00 ` Markus Mottl
1999-08-13 10:32   ` John Skaller
1999-08-25  1:51     ` Frank A. Christoph
1999-08-25  3:50       ` John Skaller
1999-08-25  6:34         ` Frank A. Christoph
1999-08-26 18:36         ` Stefan Monnier
1999-08-29  6:08           ` John Skaller
1999-08-27 10:00         ` Andreas Rossberg
1999-08-28  6:24           ` John Skaller
1999-08-30 15:59             ` Sylvain BOULM'E
1999-08-31  5:50             ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-28 19:51           ` Dave Mason [this message]
1999-08-30 19:05             ` Xavier Leroy
1999-08-30  8:02           ` Pierre Weis
1999-08-30 19:35             ` John Skaller
1999-08-31 17:10               ` Pierre Weis
1999-09-03  6:56                 ` John Skaller
1999-08-31 19:03               ` Stefan Monnier
1999-09-03  7:28                 ` John Skaller
1999-08-31  0:13             ` John Prevost
1999-08-31  5:19               ` John Skaller
1999-08-31  6:35                 ` John Prevost
1999-09-03  5:42                   ` John Skaller
1999-08-31 16:24           ` Gerard Huet
1999-07-30 14:42 ` John Skaller
1999-07-30 18:49 ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-07-30 21:30 ` Francois Rouaix
1999-08-12 10:36 ` Reply to: " Jens Olsson
1999-08-16 18:33   ` Chris Tilt
1999-08-12 12:15 ` Frank A. Christoph
1999-08-15  8:14   ` Friedman Roy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-09-07  7:24 TommyHallgren
     [not found] <John Skaller's message of "Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:19:48 +1000">

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