ocaml / gtk and so

[Julien Narboux]

Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:

> Am 17.01.03, 09:24 +0200 schrieb Juha Helminen:
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>> Hi,
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>> I've used sml a bit some years ago and think that it is not big step to
>> learn basics from ocaml. If and when there are conversions from ocaml to
>> c this will not limit portability -- I'd like to see that program could
>> be ported to Linux, Windows, Mac, ...
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> -An port for gtk to windows is allready possible (cygwin).
> -Apple has made an own port to X11 <http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/>.
> -Some developers are underway to port gtk to Mac OS X
> <http://gtk-osx.sourceforge.net/docs/applications.html> initially for
> filmgimp.
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> I hope this shows the portability of gtk-programms even if I've got no
> Mac nor do I know how to crosscompile with cygwin.
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so lets choose gtk.

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>> How much there is interest to make internationalized version of this
>> tool program? GTK seems to support multilingual versions.
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> I would like to translate into german.
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cool !
I can translate into french.

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>> Juha
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>> Julien Narboux wrote:
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>>> Hi All,
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>>> I have just a simple question : do you know ocaml or sml ?
>>> It is a strongly typed functional langage developed at INRIA in
>>> France. It is both efficient (to some extent) and high level.
>>> It is cross platform and there is a gtk port for ocaml.
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> I would be really glad about a gkt-port. I had otherwise the idea to
> integrate an frontend as plug-in into filmgimp.
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> To the above mentioned languages: I dont know ocaml nor sml.
> For me it does'nt matter because I started shortly to C.
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That is not so difficult to learn because :
- you don't need to allocate memory !
- it is strongly typed : some of the errors are detected at compile time.

Do you know any functional programming langage ?

> I would be interessted in pliant<http://pliant.cx/pliant/graphic/>
> and Python(py-gtk) too. Are these languages interessting or even known?
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I don't know pliant I will have a look.


Julien