From: "Ara.T.Howard" Date: 2005-07-21T04:57:51+09:00 Subject: Re: [WAY OT] Re: Ruby/Rails as a starter language? On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Daniel Berger wrote: > Eric Hodel wrote: >> On 20 Jul 2005, at 11:21, Jim Freeze wrote: >> >>> I looked at ocaml a while back, but stopped when I didn't see >>> an easy way to call ocaml routines from Ruby. >>> I think it would be very nice if I could write extensions in >>> ocaml instead of C. >>> >>> Granted, I didn't spend any time investigating this, so I'm >>> asking here, has anyone written an extension in ocaml for Ruby? >>> I would like to know what compiler was used and what >>> options were used. >> >> >> Inline::OCaml anyone? >> > > Sure. Let us know when you're done. :) i second that! what about some sort of xml-rpc/soap/distibuted object model using to distributed objects running on localhost? a performance hit perhaps - but it might be an easier task... both ruby and ocaml have nice interfaces to shared memory so perhaps cooperating servers with shared memory regions might make some things possible more quickly than a 'real' binding. ocaml also has an interactive command interpreter which brings up interesting possbilities - though no shared data... -a -- =============================================================================== | email :: ara [dot] t [dot] howard [at] noaa [dot] gov | phone :: 303.497.6469 | My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. | --Tenzin Gyatso ===============================================================================