From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-02-14T00:49:38+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] the funniest thing ever

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Richard Conroy wrote:

>
> 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.
>

it's OT - but not __that__ OT.  here's why

   http://sciruby.codeforpeople.com/sr.cgi/ProjectIdeas/RubyOCaml?highlight=%28ocaml%29

could be a beautiful thing....

-a
-- 
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simply reflect on that.
- the dalai lama