just a question

[Julien Narboux]

Juha Helminen wrote:

> Hi,
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> I meant conversion from high level language to low level _could_ be 
> possible. C is more low level than high level language. Conversion 
> will not be as simple as pascal to c or fortran to c converter. I 
> think that these converters (if any) loose execution time effeciency.


I think it is better to use the ocamlc native compiler (quicker and easier).

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> I just looked www.ocaml.org to get some documents, lots of reading.


If anyone needs help or advices about ocaml do not hesitate to ask me, 
if I don't know the answer people working with me will know (they are 
the designers of ocaml :-) )

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> At home I have borland compiler (BCB) but I cannont say how long time 
> it will take that I'll get anything useful. There is not too much 
> spare time :(  I think that there programs are not too dependant from 
> just one compiler and libraries -- at least I wish so. GTK can be 
> combiled with borland compiler.
>
> Good algorithm is better with slow system than simple algorithm with 
> highly optimizing compiler. That why I like the idea of high level 
> language.


I perfectly agree.

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> Juha
>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've used sml a bit some years ago and think that it is not big step 
>>> to learn basics from ocaml. If and when there are conversions from 
>>> ocaml to c this will not limit portability --
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>> conversions ? what do you mean ?
>> You can use c code with ocaml code but I don't know if you can 
>> generate c code from ocaml code, and I think it is impossible to 
>> generate ocaml code from c code.
>>
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