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Re: [Caml-list] OCaml IDEs for beginners?
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Date: | 2002-05-03 (21:12) |
From: | Paul Steckler <steck@c...> |
Subject: | RE: [Caml-list] OCaml IDEs for beginners? |
Yes, Matthew Flatt and David Goldberg are actively working on a DrOcaml, which would work within the current DrScheme environment. As a proof of concept for this approach, there's a primitive Algol60 environment for the working version of DrScheme. As Benjamin points out, it's a lot of work ... -- Paul > -----Original Message----- > > On another note, last time I talked to Matthias, Shriram, and/or > > Matthew, they were talking about putting a "DrML" environment > > together. I'm not sure whether they were shooting for an SML > > or Ocaml environment. > > Yes, we're in contact with the DrScheme folks, and they (with some > help/kibitzing from us at Penn) are definitely working on a DrML > environment -- probably for just a "teaching subset" of OCaml. > > Actually, the motivation for my question on this list a couple of days > ago was to check what the fallback alternatives would be in case DrML > is > not ready for teaching in the fall... > > > And of course, this all needs to be modifiable for an instructor > > so that they can turn on/off features in language levels. > > Unfortunately, this very wonderful aspect of the DrScheme environment > seems to have involved quite a lot of work and special hand-crafting. > It's not clear that it can be replicated for other languages with a > reasonable amount of work. > > Benjamin ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners