On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 03:55, John Goerzen wrote:

> One of the classic, common, and often still valid arguments against 
> functional languages is that there are far fewer modules available for 
> them than for a l
> anguage like Perl, Python, or Java.  I'm talking about text-processing, 
> network interaction, etc.  

The way to get a library of important utilities
for Ocaml is to (a) make interfaces to C and (b) write the code
in Ocaml.

The main argument for interoperability isn't to get commonly
available modules from other languages -- its to get access
to *custom* code written for other systems.

Apart from Swing .. well what common Java library
would be remotely interesting in Ocaml?

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