On Friday 02 November 2007 17:10, Neil Bartlett wrote: > This leaves two other options. A commercial organisation could do it, > but they would need to be persuaded that they it could make money. For > example Sun might be prepared to do it in the interests of enriching > the Java ecosystem... however they seem to be betting on Ruby rather > than OCaml at the moment. Another possibility would be a tools vendor > like Borland (or CodeGear), but it would only work for them if they > could build an entire suite of tools around the new language and > demonstrate far higher developer productivity versus Java.
I can see why Sun would bet on Ruby rather than Java: because web programming is a rich Java market and Ruby plays to that strength. OCaml is much less interesting for web programming and much more interesting for technical users like scientists. I believe great things could be done with an ML targetting the JVM. > I do not think that the above is likely to happen, so the third option > is that the open source community does it. Probably it would require a > sufficiently committed individual developer to write the core as a > proof of concept, which will draw in other developers. Who better than > Jon Harrop, one of the most outspoken proponents of OCaml in the > English-speaking world? ;-) I was afraid you would say that. ;-) Actually, if I do this then I'm not sure if it would be an open-source project or a commercial product. Perhaps an IDE to provide a development environment for the ocamljava project would be best. I haven't managed to get that working yet but it looks to be by far the most interesting of the ones I've seen. I'll keep my eyes peeled. Thanks! -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to jvm-languages@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
