From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2005-07-21T04:47:41+09:00
Subject: Re: [WAY OT] Re: Ruby/Rails as a starter language?

* Rick Nooner <rick@nooner.net> [2005-07-21 03:57:35 +0900]:

> It would be difficult to do.  Ruby libraries expect a 'C' style
> interface.  While OCaml can also easily interface to 'C' style
> libraries, it can't create them.
> 
> Another approach would be to embed the OCaml runtime in Ruby
> which would allow it to load compiled OCaml libraries.
> Working out the call interface between OCaml functors
> and Ruby methods would be interesting.

Yeah, I like that idea. That would let one call any
ocaml library compiled for their machine.

> Before someone asks the question, OCaml has a runtime 
> because it is a garbage collected langauge so a small kernel
> needs to be available when an OCaml program is running.
> The program can be either compiled to bytecode (not so
> different than Ruby) or to machine code (this is what's
> interesting to me).

Are you saying that the runtime can be compiled to bytecode?

-- 
Jim Freeze