From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
To: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
"George S. Coker, II" <gscoker@alpha.ncsc.mil>,
Patrick Colp <pjcolp@cs.ubc.ca>,
Alex Zeffertt <Alex.Zeffertt@eu.citrix.com>,
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: ocaml?? why??
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 09:51:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090406135155.GA7928@movementarian.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49DA08E4.4000303@eu.citrix.com>
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 02:51:32PM +0100, Vincent Hanquez wrote:
> >Put another way: xenstored is hardly stretching C's capabilities. xend
> >is hardly stretching Python's (at least now Twisted isn't used). Where
> >is the /need/ for a new, little-understood, language to be used?
> >
> I understand what you means (audience wise it's true), however i think
> that's very misleading to say it's a "new/little-understood" language.
Sorry, I wasn't clear: I meant new to Xen. If Xen source base had been
OCaml in the first place, it would be a different matter.
> OCaml has been great to use. Programming the same functional tree store
> with advanced transaction merging capability in the C version would have
> been a major pain, compared to how (almost) easy it was in OCaml.
So, I'm interested: why?
regards
john
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-06 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-02 14:38 caml stubdom crashes Alex Zeffertt
2009-04-02 16:22 ` Patrick Colp
2009-04-02 17:19 ` George S. Coker, II
2009-04-02 19:39 ` ocaml?? why?? (was: caml stubdom crashes) Dan Magenheimer
2009-04-02 21:38 ` Samuel Thibault
2009-04-02 22:13 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-04-02 22:31 ` Samuel Thibault
2009-04-02 23:36 ` Ian Pratt
2009-04-03 0:40 ` Dan Magenheimer
2009-04-03 1:21 ` Ian Pratt
2009-04-02 23:46 ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2009-04-06 10:33 ` John Levon
2009-04-06 13:51 ` ocaml?? why?? Vincent Hanquez
2009-04-06 13:51 ` John Levon [this message]
2009-04-06 15:08 ` Vincent Hanquez
2009-04-06 15:29 ` Patrick Colp
2009-04-06 15:38 ` John Levon
2009-04-06 16:44 ` Vincent Hanquez
2009-04-03 8:53 ` caml stubdom crashes Alex Zeffertt
2009-04-03 14:53 ` George S. Coker, II
2009-04-03 21:07 ` Patrick Colp
2009-04-06 13:42 ` Alex Zeffertt
2009-04-03 8:31 ` Alex Zeffertt
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