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 XAA03913; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:27:57 +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 XAA03909 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:27:56 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from sunny.pacific.net.au (sunny.pacific.net.au [203.25.148.40]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g3ULRs524788 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:27:55 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from wisma.pacific.net.au (wisma.pacific.net.au [210.23.129.72]) by sunny.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id g3ULRoXt014519; Wed, 1 May 2002 07:27:50 +1000 (EST) Received: from ozemail.com.au (ppp81.dyn146.pacific.net.au [210.23.146.81]) by wisma.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id HAA21681; Wed, 1 May 2002 07:27:48 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <3CCF0C54.2000108@ozemail.com.au> Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 07:27:48 +1000 From: John Max Skaller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bcpierce@cis.upenn.edu CC: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml IDEs for beginners? References: <29242.1020165920@saul.cis.upenn.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Benjamin C. Pierce wrote: >Are there any programming environments out there for OCaml that are >especially well suited to beginning programmers? > There is an editor called Red which was developed as a component of the IDE for the OO programming language Blue developed at the University of Sydeny for teaching. Last time I looked, Red needed some work .. but it is easily the best general purpose "easy to use" text editor ever written. Its key feature is that it is menu driven, but when you pull down a menu you have the option of binding a key to the operation by simply pressing the key, or learning the default binding. You might try finding Judy Kay from the staff pages of cs.usyd.edu.au if you have any interest. Its possible you could link ocaml into the IDE instead of the Blue compiler... heh .. if you can convince usyd to give up on OO and start teaching FP it would be nice too :-) -- John Max Skaller, mailto:skaller@ozemail.com.au snail:10/1 Toxteth Rd, Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia. voice:61-2-9660-0850 ------------------- 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