by Jon Harrop <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Nov 24, 2007 at 06:05 PM
Jon Harrop wrote:
> Many scientists are using the OCaml programming language for their work
> under Linux. I am not familiar with OSX but I would like to know if many
> people are using OCaml from OSX and what functional programming
languages
> they do use?
>
> Also, is there anything resembling the CLR for OSX?
Just a followup on this: turns out Apple are major backers of the
Low-Level
Virtual Machine (LLVM):
http://www.llvm.org
This project looks really exciting: it is basically a kitchen sink library
for compiler writers that allows you to plug and play different kinds of
compiler and run-time (in particular garbage collectors). There is even a
working Scheme compiler in only 1,000 lines of code!
Someone is already working on OCaml bindings to LLVM and, once that is
complete, I'll certainly have a go at writing compilers using this
technology.
As an aside, we recently invested in our first Mac and I'm very impressed
with the functionality offered by Fink: it allowed me to ****t our demos to
Mac OS X very easily and we can use all of the same tools and libraries
that we're already using under Linux to provide software to Mac users.
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?u
