Jon Harrop wrote: > Many scientists are using the OCaml programming language for their work > under Linux. I am not familiar with OSX but I would like to know if many > people are using OCaml from OSX and what functional programming languages > they do use? > > Also, is there anything resembling the CLR for OSX?
Just a followup on this: turns out Apple are major backers of the Low-Level Virtual Machine (LLVM):
http://www.llvm.org
This project looks really exciting: it is basically a kitchen sink library for compiler writers that allows you to plug and play different kinds of compiler and run-time (in particular garbage collectors). There is even a working Scheme compiler in only 1,000 lines of code!
Someone is already working on OCaml bindings to LLVM and, once that is complete, I'll certainly have a go at writing compilers using this technology.
As an aside, we recently invested in our first Mac and I'm very impressed with the functionality offered by Fink: it allowed me to port our demos to Mac OS X very easily and we can use all of the same tools and libraries that we're already using under Linux to provide software to Mac users.
-- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?u
