Re: "ocaml_beginners"::[] Set of/inside a recursive type ?

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 11:01:56PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> F# is already more advanced than OCaml in many ways and also opens
> up Windows programming. I highly recommend it for anyone interested
> in working with OCaml.

I wouldn't recommend that people tie themselves into Windows as a
platform however. And somehow F# seems to be licensed under a very
restrictive license (how did they get away with that one? - Did they
pay INRIA for a separate source license?)

Rich.

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On Friday 04 May 2007 22:57, Richard Jones wrote:
> I wouldn't recommend that people tie themselves into Windows as a
> platform however.

F# runs under Linux and Mac OS X as well.

> And somehow F# seems to be licensed under a very restrictive license

In what way? I can sell programs that I write in F#.

> (how did they get away with that one? - Did they pay INRIA for a separate
> source license?)

Besides legacy, F# has nothing to do with OCaml and INRIA.

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