On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Philip Wadler wrote:
> I was planning to try similar things you have mentioned
> on your page, such as interfacing to "the fastest FFT in
> the West" (FFTW) via GreenCard, ...
>
> By the way, FFTW although written in C, was generated by a functional
> program written in Caml. You can find more details on the web page
>
> Functional Programming in the Real World
> http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/~wadler/realword/
>
Yes, I know it, but thank you for pointing it out.
It is amazing to see how useful caml/ocaml is in development
of other goodies, such as Pict, Joint Calculus, Ensemble, etc.
I think that they did a good job with interfacing
it to C in a variety of ways: toplevel, bytecode, native
code, embedded bytecode, etc.; and that's probably one of the
answers why it is so popular - at least among researchers.
Jan
> -- P
>
