Re: [Caml-list] Scilab: Why not written in OCaml?

2009-09-20 Thread Jon Harrop
On Sunday 20 September 2009 10:08:48 ri...@happyleptic.org wrote: > > ...why is that program not written with INRIA's Ocaml? > > Probably for the same reason than all Princeton university > programs are not written in SML/NJ (so I guess) ? INRIA aren't using OCaml because SML/NJ sucks? ;-) -- Dr

Re: [Caml-list] Scilab: Why not written in OCaml?

2009-09-20 Thread rixed
> ...why is that program not written with INRIA's Ocaml? Probably for the same reason than all Princeton university programs are not written in SML/NJ (so I guess) ? ___ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mail

Re: [Caml-list] Scilab: Why not written in OCaml?

2009-09-19 Thread Adrien
Hi, There is probably a simple and yet very good reason scilab isn't written in ocaml. Its predecessor was started in the 80s and scilab itself was started in 90s[1], I guess that rules out ocaml and caml which was only 5 years-old at that time. ;-) Now that doesn't explain why it is moving to ja

Re: [Caml-list] Scilab: Why not written in OCaml?

2009-09-19 Thread Oliver Bandel
Zitat von "Jon Harrop" : On Saturday 19 September 2009 08:39:14 Stéphane Lescuyer wrote: > ...and from INRIA's view I would think: they have developed > OCaml, but do not use it for their own developments > ... strange, isn't it? I think you don't quite realize how big an institute the INR

Re: [Caml-list] Scilab: Why not written in OCaml?

2009-09-19 Thread Oliver Bandel
Hi, Zitat von "Philippe Wang" : Why not use Bigloo? It's a efficient scheme compiler, also developed at INRIA. http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/ [...] I looked at bigloo before I came to OCaml. I decided against it. Not only because of schem's (()(()()))-terror ;-) bu

Re: [Caml-list] Scilab: Why not written in OCaml?

2009-09-19 Thread Philippe Wang
Why not use Bigloo? It's a efficient scheme compiler, also developed at INRIA. http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/ Just kidding, -- Philippe Wang m...@philippewang.info On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Jon Harrop wrote: > On Saturday 19 September 2009 08:39:14 Stéphane Lescuyer wrote

Re: [Caml-list] Scilab: Why not written in OCaml?

2009-09-19 Thread Jon Harrop
On Saturday 19 September 2009 08:39:14 Stéphane Lescuyer wrote: > > ...and from INRIA's view I would think: they have developed > > OCaml, but do not use it for their own developments > > ... strange, isn't it? > > I think you don't quite realize how big an institute the INRIA is : > > http://w

Re: [Caml-list] Scilab: Why not written in OCaml?

2009-09-19 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Oliver Bandel wrote: > Hello, > > > the program Scilab, a Matlab-clone, > written by INRIA, is written in C, Psilab is Ocaml (plus C and Fortran libraries): http://psilab.sourceforge.net/ Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo

Re: [Caml-list] Scilab: Why not written in OCaml?

2009-09-19 Thread Stéphane Lescuyer
> ...and from INRIA's view I would think: they have developed > OCaml, but do not use it for their own developments > ... strange, isn't it? I think you don't quite realize how big an institute the INRIA is : http://www.inria.fr/inria/enbref.en.html Plus, there are a variety of other (domain

[Caml-list] Scilab: Why not written in OCaml?

2009-09-18 Thread Oliver Bandel
Hello, the program Scilab, a Matlab-clone, written by INRIA, is written in C, and since version 5.0 is using Java-Stuff for Plotting, and this stuff is used in a way that it does not really support Linux... ...why is that program not written with INRIA's Ocaml? Maybe rewriting it would make