Re: [Caml-list] Conditional compilation

2009-08-18 Thread Olivier Andrieu
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 04:37, Edgar Friendlythelema...@gmail.com wrote: I'm starting to think that optcomp is just a mismatch for what I'm trying to do, and I'm trying to use the wrong tool for the job.  That said, I don't think it's the best solution (especially with already long compile

Re: [Caml-list] Conditional compilation

2009-08-18 Thread Richard Jones
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:00:28PM -0400, Edgar Friendly wrote: Is there a better way to do this? The path I'm following is looking very byzantine compared to C's [-DFOO] + [#ifdef FOO]. You can just use autoconf's ordinary features: eg: AC_ARG_ENABLE([foo],

Re: [Caml-list] Jane Street is hiring (as if you didn't already know)

2009-08-18 Thread Richard Jones
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:44:52AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Matthew Macy wrote: I don't anticipate ever doing functional programming professionally Why ever not? I'm at a small VC funded startup and I use Ocaml and Haskell for production code on a regular basis. We have a

[Caml-list] ocaml for the Semantic Web

2009-08-18 Thread tumenjargal tsagaan
Hi, (1) is there any specialized APIs for processing RDF as well as OWL file? (2) is there any similar API in Ocaml like XML-parsers from Java world? Thank you. Tumee. ___ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management:

Re: [Caml-list] Jane Street is hiring (as if you didn't already know)

2009-08-18 Thread Florian Hars
Erik de Castro Lopo schrieb: That makes sense. I do quite low level stuff as well, even Linux device drivers and that is not ever going to be done in Ocaml or Haskell :-). People do use Haskell in developing OS kernels, and you can't get more low-level than that:

Re: [Caml-list] Jane Street is hiring (as if you didn't already know)

2009-08-18 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Florian Hars wrote: Erik de Castro Lopo schrieb: That makes sense. I do quite low level stuff as well, even Linux device drivers and that is not ever going to be done in Ocaml or Haskell :-). People do use Haskell in developing OS kernels, and you can't get more low-level than that:

OCaml and kernels (was: Re: [Caml-list] Jane Street is hiring)

2009-08-18 Thread Richard Jones
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:07:23PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Florian Hars wrote: Erik de Castro Lopo schrieb: That makes sense. I do quite low level stuff as well, even Linux device drivers and that is not ever going to be done in Ocaml or Haskell :-). People do use Haskell