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=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D79B2BBC1 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:04:00 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjsCAOPh10fAXQImh2dsb2JhbACBWY8YAQEBCAopgQ2VTA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,490,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="23693326" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 12 Mar 2008 22:04:00 +0100 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m2CL3wD5019668 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:04:00 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ai0EAKbh10c+BBFnWmdsb2JhbACBWY8OARQEBQgIgSeVVQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,490,1199660400"; d="scan'208";a="9354404" Received: from smtp-103-wednesday.noc.nerim.net (HELO mallaury.nerim.net) ([62.4.17.103]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 12 Mar 2008 22:03:59 +0100 Received: from hector.lesours (ours.starynkevitch.net [213.41.244.95]) by mallaury.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F292B4FD35; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:03:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.1] (glinka.lesours [192.168.0.1]) by hector.lesours (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA6EA20F192; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:03:05 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <47D84537.2060100@starynkevitch.net> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:03:51 +0100 From: Basile STARYNKEVITCH User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080109) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fabrice Marchant Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] A C to OCaml helper ? References: <20080312204217.3f5087e3@orange.fr> In-Reply-To: <20080312204217.3f5087e3@orange.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 47D8453E.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; basile:01 basile:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 faiencerie:01 92340:01 reine:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 expressive:01 8501:02 2359:02 functional:02 programming:03 translate:04 Fabrice Marchant wrote: > Please does it exist some tool that could do at least the very mechanical first parts of the translation of a C source to OCaml ? Why do you want to do that? You could call most of your C routines from Ocaml. And most importantly, the main interest of ocaml is the way of thinking it. When mastered, it is a language much more expressive & much more fun. And no mechanical translation would give you that.... If it is a homework, better to start thinking & coding in Ocaml, than to translate blindly C into Ocaml. And a blind translation won't learn anything about Ocaml or functional programming. -- Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ email: basilestarynkevitchnet mobile: +33 6 8501 2359 8, rue de la Faiencerie, 92340 Bourg La Reine, France *** opinions {are only mines, sont seulement les miennes} ***