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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


  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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