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From: Andrej Bauer <Andrej.Bauer@fmf.uni-lj.si>
To: Caml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Teaching ocaml programming
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:30:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DCC7B8.4070700@fmf.uni-lj.si> (raw)

Once again I am teaching a course on theory of programming languages in 
which we will use ocaml to implement mini-languages. And once again I 
face the question: which programming environment should we use?

I have so far tried to use (under Windows)
1. cygwin + ocaml + XEmacs
2. Eclipse + OcaIDE

The second solution worked better than the first, for the simple reason 
that XEmacs is a complete mystery to students. They really, really hate 
it. But even with the second soltion we had a lot of trouble, because 
Eclipse is really complicated, and OcaIDE is sort of experimental and 
not so good under Windows, so the whole setup was confusing and fragile.

The requirements are very simple:
1. easy access to toplevel (with line-editing)
2. editor which can send stuff to toplevel, points to errors in source 
code, and is not Emacs.

Any ideas what to do? We have dual-boot machines (Windows + Ubuntu).

Best regards,

Andrej


             reply	other threads:[~2008-09-26 11:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-26 11:30 Andrej Bauer [this message]
2008-09-26 11:44 ` [Caml-list] " Lukasz Stafiniak
2008-09-26 11:52   ` Andrej Bauer
2008-09-26 12:07     ` Andrej Bauer
2008-09-26 14:31     ` Richard Jones
2008-09-26 14:49       ` Peng Zang
2008-09-26 12:10 ` Brighten Godfrey
2008-09-26 12:41   ` Andrej Bauer
2008-09-26 12:55     ` Mehdi Dogguy
2008-09-26 17:44     ` Yaron Minsky
2008-09-26 18:59       ` Andrej Bauer
2008-09-26 19:23         ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2008-09-26 20:46     ` David Teller
2008-10-09 21:36     ` Kuba Ober
2008-09-26 22:09   ` Nathaniel Gray
2008-09-26 13:11 ` Hugo Ferreira
2008-09-26 13:33   ` Andrej Bauer
2008-09-26 13:43     ` Hugo Ferreira
2008-09-26 16:15     ` Arthur Chan
2008-09-26 16:52       ` Richard Jones
2008-09-26 22:16         ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-09-27  9:44         ` OCaml support on Ubuntu David MENTRE
2008-09-27  9:55           ` [Caml-list] " Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-09-27 11:21           ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-09-27 12:17             ` David MENTRE
2008-09-26 16:55       ` [Caml-list] Teaching ocaml programming Andrej Bauer
2008-09-26 17:11       ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-09-26 18:16         ` Hugo Ferreira
2008-09-26 22:20         ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-09-26 22:08       ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-09-27  6:15         ` Vu Ngoc San
2008-09-27  9:22         ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-09-27  9:33           ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-09-27  9:36             ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-09-27 11:16             ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-09-26 14:29 ` Peng Zang
2008-09-26 15:18 ` Dario Teixeira
2008-09-26 16:17   ` Andrej Bauer
2008-09-26 16:55     ` Richard Jones
2008-09-26 17:01     ` Peng Zang
2008-09-28  0:06       ` Brighten Godfrey
2008-09-26 20:30 ` David Teller
2008-09-26 22:05 ` Nathaniel Gray
2008-10-09 21:41 ` Kuba Ober
2008-10-10 17:08   ` Andrej Bauer
2008-10-11 15:58     ` Kuba Ober
2008-10-11 16:19       ` Kuba Ober
2008-10-11 21:18         ` Andrej Bauer
2008-10-13 23:21           ` Kuba Ober
2008-09-26 17:15 Jeff Shaw

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