<gameweld>
are most of the ocaml packages targeted for linux?
<gameweld>
and windows ports are secondary?
<malc>
mostly yes
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<GnuVince>
Anyone knows what's going on with caml.inria.fr?
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<gameweld>
its been down for a couple of days, shrug
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* Yurik
is away: beer
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<ott>
hello
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<Etaoin>
what exactly is the purpose of this channel?
<Taaus>
To discuss O'Caml, of course :)
<Etaoin>
I thought so. But I don't see anyone discussing
<Taaus>
Wait a minute... You mean you aren't using telepathy for discussions yet? Oh, that's sooo 20th century... ;)
<Etaoin>
oh
<Etaoin>
got a suggestion for a little excercise I could use to learn some ocaml?
<Taaus>
Actually... I don't know why this channel is so quiet... It's probably because O'Caml isn't as widely used as other (imperative) langauges...
<Taaus>
Hmm... How about prime number routines, factorisation, etc.?
<Taaus>
Have you used functional programming languages before?
<Etaoin>
no
<Taaus>
Ah.. That may pose a problem.. (I've chatted with a couple of people wanting to learn O'Caml when coming from an imperative programming background...)
<Etaoin>
I know how to program a few imperitive languages
<Taaus>
Which ones? :)
<Etaoin>
my favorite is python. I can write in c.
<Etaoin>
I "know" forth and lisp. By "know," I mean I understand the language, but don't write terribly elegant things in them.
<Taaus>
Ah. Python is neat... C is, well, rarely needed ;)
<Taaus>
I guess my only advice is to get your hands dirty... If your program doesn't work, you can always come back here and whine about it ;)
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<timmy>
well, you could get away with imperative style in ocaml
<Etaoin>
yay
<Taaus>
Hmm... Is O'Caml as effective at compiling imperative style code as it is as compiling functional style code?
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<xtrm>
Hello World\n
<gameweld>
that may be too complex to judge. Because it has to take into account what you were doing
<Taaus>
Hmm... That's rather vague...
<smkl>
ocaml will do some unboxing for references
<gameweld>
that's because the answer would look like, it depends...if you were doing this time of thing, because of the nature of it and so on
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