After teaching OCaml for two years, I personally suggest * Ubuntu + GODI * Emacs + Emacs-goodies (slightly customised to obtain tabs, I can send you my .emacs) + Tuareg -- (Emacs is much better than XEmacs, at least for this -- and the tabs are a tremendous help) * OcamlBuild with a myocamlbuild.ml written by you.
Cheers, David On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 13:30 +0200, Andrej Bauer wrote: > Once again I am teaching a course on theory of programming languages in > which we will use ocaml to implement mini-languages. And once again I > face the question: which programming environment should we use? > > I have so far tried to use (under Windows) > 1. cygwin + ocaml + XEmacs > 2. Eclipse + OcaIDE > > The second solution worked better than the first, for the simple reason > that XEmacs is a complete mystery to students. They really, really hate > it. But even with the second soltion we had a lot of trouble, because > Eclipse is really complicated, and OcaIDE is sort of experimental and > not so good under Windows, so the whole setup was confusing and fragile. > > The requirements are very simple: > 1. easy access to toplevel (with line-editing) > 2. editor which can send stuff to toplevel, points to errors in source > code, and is not Emacs. > > Any ideas what to do? We have dual-boot machines (Windows + Ubuntu). > > Best regards, > > Andrej > > _______________________________________________ > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: > http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list > Archives: http://caml.inria.fr > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs > -- David Teller-Rajchenbach Security of Distributed Systems http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/Members/David.Teller Angry researcher: French Universities need reforms, but the LRU act brings liquidations. _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
