On Friday 26 September 2008, 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.
I've been reading through this thread and it all seems like a 300-liner in Qt/C++ (yes, it's that powerful) (excluding syntax definition for Qt's editor widget, if one doesn't exist somewhere for grabs). Is there a non-Cygwin (mingw?) version of Ocaml for Windows that's "good enough" for you? If so, I will tackle it over the weekend. My numerical methods prof was looking for something like that too. Just give me a pointer to a non-Cygwin version of Ocaml that works for you; I refuse to deal with anything that has "Cygwin" in it :) Cheers, Kuba _______________________________________________ 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
