Re: [Caml-list] Re: Arithmetic operations

[Pierre-Alexandre Voye <ontologiae@gmail.com>]

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2011/3/31 Philippe Strauss <philou@philou.ch>

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> Le 31 mars 2011 à 10:19, Pierre-Alexandre Voye a écrit :
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> It's funny, because I'm studying why language succeed or not, for my M1
> dissertation (M1 Management), and it's one of the big factor, among others,
> of sucess.
> Ocaml is highly expressive, so you could turn around, but it's a big
> problem.
>
> I think it would be important and interesting to create a little
> organization which discuss bout a standard lib and would begin making a
> synthesis of all these "standard" library.
>
>
> Personally I'm not that unhappy with the standard lib shipped by INRIA.
>
> maybe batteries and janestreet core (to name nowadays alternatives) have
> too big ambitions: extension library aside INRIA's standard lib would have
> more users than a complete alternative.
>
> the way you can get haskell packaged easily, on the contrary, as some big
> appeal.
>
>
> I think INRIA, and in particular the Xavier Leroy's team, make what they
can. Their work isn't to maintain OCaml but mainly to do research.
So, I think INRIA could continue to work on a good compiler, and company
which make business whith ocaml could discuss between them to agreed on
standards, via Ocamlcore for instance, with the agreement of Xavier Leroy's
team of course.


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