From: John Carr <jfc@MIT.EDU>
To: Caml-list List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] If OCaml were a car
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:43:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708191443.l7JEhEQ8007374@psi-phi.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56864F61-40F3-4F03-9823-6D510AD5320B@epfl.ch>
> Maybe I ride this car too often to realize (or I'm dumb) but I don't
> get the joke about controls.
OCaml has a badly designed syntax processed by a badly implemented
parser feeding into a backend that generates poor error messages.
All this makes the language hard to use. Anybody else learn C
using pcc on Unix?
Unfortunately, I didn't think to start cataloging compiler error
messages and their causes when I started learning the language.
I did send one anomaly to the list about parsing of semicolons.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-19 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-18 19:21 Richard Jones
2007-08-18 20:24 ` [Caml-list] " Jeff Meister
2007-08-18 21:32 ` Michael Vanier
2007-08-19 11:50 ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-08-19 11:59 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-08-22 5:50 ` Luca de Alfaro
2007-08-22 8:13 ` Jon Harrop
2007-08-22 9:20 ` Jacques Garrigue
2007-08-24 2:54 ` Nathaniel Gray
2007-08-25 19:45 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-08-19 14:43 ` John Carr [this message]
2007-08-19 16:22 ` brogoff
2007-08-19 17:07 ` Richard Jones
2007-08-19 17:19 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2007-08-22 6:04 ` Luca de Alfaro
2007-08-19 20:51 ` Vincent Hanquez
2007-08-21 8:05 ` David Allsopp
2007-08-21 18:33 ` Richard Jones
2007-08-19 20:30 ` Tom
2007-08-19 21:45 ` skaller
2007-08-20 3:37 ` Jon Harrop
2007-08-20 6:26 ` skaller
2007-08-20 10:00 ` Joerg van den Hoff
2007-08-21 12:03 ` Florian Hars
2007-08-20 6:54 ` skaller
2007-08-20 19:54 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-08-20 20:27 ` David Allsopp
2007-08-20 20:50 ` Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)
2007-08-21 10:56 ` Joerg van den Hoff
2007-08-20 21:13 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-08-21 0:47 ` skaller
2007-08-21 9:51 ` Oliver Bandel
2007-08-21 10:30 ` skaller
2007-08-21 18:57 ` Richard Jones
2007-08-22 2:49 ` skaller
2007-08-22 11:33 ` Thomas Fischbacher
2007-08-21 14:46 ` Business Adoption of Ocaml [was Re: [Caml-list] If OCaml were a car] Robert Fischer
2007-08-21 15:09 ` Brian Hurt
2007-08-21 15:48 ` [Caml-list] If OCaml were a car brogoff
2007-08-19 18:15 [caml-list] " Mike Lin
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