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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:46:24 +0100
From: "Paolo Donadeo" <p.donadeo@gmail.com>
To: "OCaml mailing list" <caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Wanted: your feedback on the hierarchy of OCaml Batteries Included
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Couldn't we take inspiration from the Python standard library [1]?
Python hasn't namespace but is provided with a module system similar
to OCaml *and* the standard library is really impressive.

And nobody can say Python is a bureaucratic language like Java :-)


[1] http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/lib.html


-- 
Paolo
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