From: Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>
To: gasche <gasche.dylc@gmail.com>
Cc: Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Pre-compiled ocaml binary for windows
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:52:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CFE03F3.7010606@frisch.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin2aK4+d6CeBuB1j+tHWOD2VTOoiSeDKUnq0wx=@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/07/2010 10:42 AM, gasche wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr
> <mailto:alain@frisch.fr>> wrote:
>
> The graphical toplevel does not depend on labltk, so the two issues
> are really unrelated. For crashes with the OCamlWin.exe, I was
> thinking about http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=4399 and
> http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=3052, but this might be pure
> FUD. The real problem is that nobody seems interested enough in this
> graphical toplevel to put serious work on it.
>
>
> I beg to differ. In my experience, the Graphics module is a wonderful
> tool to get non-programming beginners interested in OCaml. I have been
> in the position of teaching OCaml to beginners, and the single thing
> they remember and found *fun* was displaying the mandelbrot fractal, and
> then playing with different color functions to get fancy results.
We were discussing the graphical toplevel (OCamlWin.exe), not the
Graphics module. The two are unrelated.
-- Alain
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-07 9:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-03 20:06 José Romildo Malaquias
2010-12-06 15:28 ` [Caml-list] " Damien Doligez
2010-12-06 16:08 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-12-06 17:50 ` [Caml-list] " Matthieu Dubuget
2010-12-07 0:24 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-12-07 8:21 ` [Caml-list] " Alain Frisch
2010-12-07 9:03 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-12-07 9:30 ` [Caml-list] " Alain Frisch
2010-12-07 9:42 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2010-12-07 9:49 ` [Caml-list] " Alain Frisch
2010-12-09 11:54 ` Mauricio Fernandez
2010-12-09 13:12 ` Alain Frisch
2010-12-07 9:42 ` gasche
2010-12-07 9:52 ` Alain Frisch [this message]
2010-12-07 10:29 ` gasche
2010-12-07 15:57 ` [Caml-list] " ygrek
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