From: Richard Conroy Date: 2007-02-13T20:03:01+09:00 Subject: Re: [OT] the funniest thing ever On 2/13/07, Clifford Heath wrote: > Richard Conroy wrote: > > It has some fantastic features at the language > > design level. We are talking drool-worthy. And absolutely no library > > to speak of. > > That's funny. Coulda sworn that my Debian package listing contains > one hundred and forty five maintained ocaml packages. I didn't get enough time to itemise the OCaml library space. Apologies if I have misrepresented the language. But I spent some time googling and chasing resources and didn't find anything, and no real links from the main page or tutorials. I got the impression that Caml development basically meant binding to C libraries. Whats the rubyforge equivalent for (O)Caml? Private e-mail it if you think this thread has gone too OT. I am very interested. A healthy library ecology raises OCaml from something to keep an eye on, to immediate attention. > If the base > language package contains nearly nothing, *that's an advantage*. Agreed. But if I didn't make it clear, my main concern was the availability of libraries for common development tasks, like database development, network comms protocols (particularly secure ones). etc. Yeah, this is getting more than a bit OT, but (O)Caml *is* interesting.