From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id IAA20548 for caml-red; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 08:16:09 +0200 (MET DST) 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 RAA29232 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 17:42:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e84Fgdb27034; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 17:42:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from xleroy@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA08788; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 17:42:38 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <20000904174238.48934@pauillac.inria.fr> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 17:42:38 +0200 From: Xavier Leroy To: Guillaume Randon , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: .Net References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1 In-Reply-To: ; from Guillaume Randon on Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 12:32:21PM +0000 Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr [Guillaume Randon asked about Caml and the Microsoft .NET common runtime system. I reply in English because this is of general interest.] > Y a t'il des projets de portage de Caml vers l'Universal Runtime faisant > partie du framework .net de microsoft ? Yes. In the spring of '99, Microsoft Research approached us, along with other academic groups working on modern programming languages, to work on this new technology. One of us (Bruno Pagano) has been working for about one year on a port of Objective Caml to the .net infrastructure, under support from Microsoft Research. Bruno has a prototype port that works relatively well (better than expected initially), but still shows that the .net common runtime system is not a perfect fit for OCaml. I'm not sure I can give more details (Microsoft may not have released all technical specs yet), but in summary, .net is a technology we follow closely, although it is still unclear whether it is the future of OCaml for Windows. - Xavier Leroy