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Re: [Caml-list] The closing gap (warning: long, inflammatory rant)

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        Jon Harrop
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  - Elliott Oti
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Date:	2008-04-21 (16:27)
From:	Elliott Oti <elliott@e...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] The closing gap (warning: long, inflammatory rant)

Richard Jones wrote:
> OCaml supports fork, event channels & shared memory right now
> (and has done for years) so there is no penalty to writing it
> properly.
>   
Not on Win32. I use Solaris at work and Linux at home, but Win32 is a 
big platform - the biggest there is right now - and the Unix module 
process- and signal-related implementations there are unusable.