From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from discorde.inria.fr (discorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.38]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4B49BC0C for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:34:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.syd.people.net.au (smtp.syd.people.net.au [218.214.225.98]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id kBL4YKJf030429 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:34:22 +0100 Received: (qmail 604 invoked from network); 21 Dec 2006 04:34:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO coltrane.mega-nerd.net) (218.214.64.136) by smtp.syd.people.net.au with SMTP; 21 Dec 2006 04:34:28 -0000 Received: from coltrane (coltrane [192.168.1.101]) by coltrane.mega-nerd.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 608A57B6D for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:34:13 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:34:13 +1100 From: Erik de Castro Lopo To: Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Scripting in ocaml Message-Id: <20061221153413.8f99e8ed.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <6dbd4d000612201941wcd4b09anc503a13889576512@mail.gmail.com> References: <6dbd4d000612201941wcd4b09anc503a13889576512@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Erik Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.3.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 458A0ECC.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 belly:98 waldo:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 python:02 erik:04 erik:04 i'd:05 style:93 bash:08 scripts:09 sense:10 perform:11 Denis Bueno wrote: > I've been writing bash scripts to perform various build- and > development-related tasks, and I don't enjoy it. I won't bore you with > detailed reasons why. The upshot is that I'd like to script in OCaml. Makes a lot of sense. I used to do scripting style tasks in Python but nowadays I prefer to use Ocaml. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly full of words and do not know a thing." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson