GODI and its new homepage

Dear LWN,

the GODI project is a source-code based distribution of the Objective
Caml (O'Caml) language that contains the core programming environment
plus a lot of additional libraries, and even some applications. Besides
making the O'Caml environment more accessible, the intention of GODI is
also to make this programming language more popular. The GODI project
now opens a new homepage that introduces into this project, and provides
all relevant links to GODI resources:

http://godi.ocaml-programming.de

In the past, the wonderful O'Caml language suffered from the inability
of their creators to distribute it in a form that was really usable for
programming. Important libraries are not part of the core distribution,
and had to be installed in addition to it. Whenever a core component or
a library was available in a new version, everything had to be
recompiled manually. GODI tries to change this. As O'Caml is a
compiler-based language, the techniques for distributing scripting
languages like Perl or Python were not applicable. The distribution
framework for GODI needed the possibility to manage the interdependent
build processes of its components, and the ability to recompile a stack
of libraries automatically. For these reasons, GODI bases on the BSD
ports as base technology which have been improved to meet the
language-specific needs. The result is a source-based distribution that
is almost as easy to use as a binary distribution.

The GODI project hopes now that O'Caml attracts more developers,
especially outside the universities where it already has a good
reputation. As a fast and safe language that combines the advantages of
functional, imperative and object-oriented programming O'Caml deserves
more attention of the Linux and Open Source community. It allows rapid
development, supports a dense programming style, simplifies the
modelling of security layers within the language, and is in general a
good choice for application development. Somehow O'Caml is the language
Python and Perl would like to be, as it already has all the advanced
features a modern programming language is nowadays expected to have, and
there is an excellent compiler producing fast assembly code.

Best wishes,

Gerd Stolpmann and the GODI project

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