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actually the standard reply is ...

Posted Jan 19, 2006 4:27 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: The .NET API patent, mono, and GNOME by njhurst
Parent article: The .NET API patent, mono, and GNOME

... produce some code, and we'll look at it. You're asking other people to produce code in languages they don't know, because you like those languages. It doesn't work that way.

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Posted Jan 19, 2006 11:58 UTC (Thu) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link]

We're producing (proprietary) apps for clients in lablgtk2, the OCaml Gtk interface:

http://wwwfun.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/soft/olabl/lablgtk.html

It works very well, and OCaml programs as just about as fast as C programs.

Rich.

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Posted Jan 19, 2006 12:46 UTC (Thu) by dcoutts (subscriber, #5387) [Link]

There's also Gtk2Hs. Having done both, I can assure you that it really is much easier writing GUIs in Haskell than in C.