From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-07-21T08:15:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/OCaml Was Re: [WAY OT] Re: Ruby/Rails as a starter language?

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Rick Nooner wrote:

>> I was just at the OCaml site,
>> http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual032.html
>> looking at what it would *really* take to do this and it
>> seems very possible.
>>
>> OCaml supports mixed C/OCaml libraries, too.  Lot's of
>> possibilities.
>>
>> Maybe I'll look into it further.  It would be useful for me.
>>
>> Rick
>
> Well, I looked into it and it is far easier that I thought.
>
> I wrote a small fibonacci function in OCaml (actually took the
> example from the OCaml docs), wrapped it in a C library,
> built a ruby extension that loads the OCaml runtime and called
> the fib function, passing in an integer and returning the
> calculated value as a Ruby value.
>
> It might not seem like much but it proves that OCaml can
> be easily interfaced with Ruby.
>
> It's not bullet proof but it could be made so.
>
> There is too much to it to explain on the list.  I'll put up
> a web page with code and explainations if people are interested.

go rick!

   http://sciruby.codeforpeople.com/sr.cgi/ProjectIdeas
   http://sciruby.codeforpeople.com/sr.cgi/ProjectIdeas/RubyOCaml

i added you to

   http://sciruby.codeforpeople.com/sr.cgi/MemberGroup

you'll have to login and setup a password the first time.

cheers.


-a
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