Re: [Caml-list] Jane Street is hiring (as if you didn't already know)

2009-08-18 Thread Florian Hars
Erik de Castro Lopo schrieb: > The Linux kernel which is the one I am interested in is C only. The kernel I linked to is in C, too (well, 7500 lines of C accompanied by 20 lines of proof that the C actually implements the formal specification automatically generated from the Haskell prototype

[Caml-list] Transition to OCaml 3.11.1 in Ubuntu Karmic Koala completed!

2009-08-18 Thread David MENTRE
Hello, I am very pleased to announce that transition to OCaml 3.11.1 in Ubuntu Karmic is now completed! http://bentobako.org/ubuntu-ocaml-status/transition_monitor/ocaml_transition_monitor.html Many thanks to (in order of appearance): * Ubuntu side: James Wetsby Andrea Gasparini Mic

Re: [Caml-list] fancy tex for ocaml code

2009-08-18 Thread Michaël Grünewald
Pierre-Evariste Dagand wrote: Hi, I was wondering if someone is aware of a tool for ocaml like this at http://people.cs.uu.nl/andres/lhs2tex/ Ocamlweb is what you are looking for: [http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/ocamlweb/]. It's an excellent tool. I really second your voice saying that ocamlwe

Re: OCaml and kernels (was: Re: [Caml-list] Jane Street is hiring)

2009-08-18 Thread Philippe Strauss
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 04:21:16PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:07:23PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > Florian Hars wrote: > > > > > Erik de Castro Lopo schrieb: > > > > That makes sense. I do quite low level stuff as well, even Linux device > > > > drivers and t

Re: OCaml and kernels (was: Re: [Caml-list] Jane Street is hiring)

2009-08-18 Thread David MENTRE
Hello, 2009/8/18 Richard Jones : > It's relatively low-level when you need it to be, and it wouldn't be > too much work to separate out the runtime and reimplement it on top of > baremetal. I've done part of this in the past (KOS is not bare metal but a kernel nonetheless): http://caml.inria.fr

OCaml and kernels (was: Re: [Caml-list] Jane Street is hiring)

2009-08-18 Thread Richard Jones
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:07:23PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Florian Hars wrote: > > > Erik de Castro Lopo schrieb: > > > That makes sense. I do quite low level stuff as well, even Linux device > > > drivers and that is not ever going to be done in Ocaml or Haskell :-). > > > > People d

Re: [Caml-list] Jane Street is hiring (as if you didn't already know)

2009-08-18 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Florian Hars wrote: > Erik de Castro Lopo schrieb: > > That makes sense. I do quite low level stuff as well, even Linux device > > drivers and that is not ever going to be done in Ocaml or Haskell :-). > > People do use Haskell in developing OS kernels, and you can't get more > low-level than tha

Re: [Caml-list] Jane Street is hiring (as if you didn't already know)

2009-08-18 Thread Florian Hars
Erik de Castro Lopo schrieb: > That makes sense. I do quite low level stuff as well, even Linux device > drivers and that is not ever going to be done in Ocaml or Haskell :-). People do use Haskell in developing OS kernels, and you can't get more low-level than that: http://ertos.nicta.com.au/res

[Caml-list] ocaml for the Semantic Web

2009-08-18 Thread tumenjargal tsagaan
Hi, (1) is there any specialized APIs for processing RDF as well as OWL file? (2) is there any similar API in Ocaml like XML-parsers from Java world? Thank you. Tumee. ___ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr

Re: [Caml-list] Jane Street is hiring (as if you didn't already know)

2009-08-18 Thread Richard Jones
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:44:52AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Matthew Macy wrote: > > > I don't anticipate ever doing functional programming professionally > > Why ever not? > > I'm at a small VC funded startup and I use Ocaml and Haskell > for production code on a regular basis. We hav

Re: [Caml-list] Conditional compilation

2009-08-18 Thread Richard Jones
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:00:28PM -0400, Edgar Friendly wrote: > Is there a better way to do this? The path I'm following is looking > very byzantine compared to C's [-DFOO] + [#ifdef FOO]. You can just use autoconf's ordinary features: eg: AC_ARG_ENABLE([foo], [AS_HELP_STRING([--e

Re: [Caml-list] Conditional compilation

2009-08-18 Thread Olivier Andrieu
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 04:37, Edgar Friendly wrote: > I'm starting to think that optcomp is just a mismatch for what I'm > trying to do, and I'm trying to use the wrong tool for the job.  That > said, I don't think it's the best solution (especially with already long > compile times for the projec