Re: the windows subject

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 09:47:24AM +0200, 'Mr. Herr' [email protected] [ocaml_beginners] wrote:
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> On 14.04.2016 21:18, 'Mr. Herr' [email protected] [ocaml_beginners] wrote:
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> > On 14.04.2016 16:07, Hendrik Boom [email protected] [ocaml_beginners] wrote:
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> >>  
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> >> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 09:32:15AM +0200, 'Mr. Herr' [email protected]
> >> [ocaml_beginners] wrote:
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> >> > Other platforms: on MS Windows there is F#, which is a .NET offspring of OCaml.
> >>
> >> You shouldn't have to resort to F# on Windows. Isn't OCaml available
> >> on Windows, too?
> >>
> > It was meant as an offer. F# has taken some unique turns, for example
> > an optional syntax with significant white space, and the embedding into
> > .NET can be appealing. It has caused some hype amongst windows
> > programmers.
> >
> > Whilst waiting for the heresy trial (making it worse ;-) i can tell  you -
> > if you don't know already - that the mono project at mono-project.com 
> > is now sponsored by MS and seems to be usable.
> >
> > Yes there is OCaml on windows, link
> > http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-4.00/notes/README.win32
> Addition:
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> MS is working on bringing linux to windows, be it for the better or the worse:
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>     https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about
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> sorry, ubuntu, not linux:
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>     http://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-not-linux-on-windows-how-it-works/   
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> /Str.

Yes, it's the userspace part of what is commonly and incorrectly called Linux.
It isn't the kernel.

-- hendrik