Re: [GD-General] Objective Caml (was Ruby opinions)

[Thatcher U. <tu...@tu...>]

On Dec 24, 2001 at 01:58 -0500, Patrick M Doane wrote:
> To provide a more objective viewpoint on OCaml, here are some thoughts I
> have on how I think it can be improved:
> 
>   - more bindings to native os libraries

This is a big practical problem with everything other than C/C++.
I've done some messing around with binding Lua to C-based APIs, and
found SWIG to be pretty good, but it's still not as easy as "#include
<libraryheader.h>".

I'm also trying to learn OCaml.  It's tough going so far -- almost
nothing about it is intuitive to me.  But it has all the right
marketing bullet-points, so I'm plugging away.

Actually, one thing that bothers me is lack of a native 32-bit float
type.  floats in OCaml are 64-bit.  I think that will need to get
fixed at some point.

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