[cap-talk] Confessions of a C programmer

[Stiegler, Marc D]

> I also wish to clarify what seems to be a common 
> misconception: OCaml does not compile to C. It has its own 
> native code generator, and a C-based bytecode VM for 
> unsupported architectures.

Sandro, the last time I installed Ocaml on a windows box (about 2 years ago), there were two sets of instructions for setting it up to use either the Cygwin gcc compiler, or the Visual Studio C compiler, for the final step of compilation. The programmer never needs to look at the C intermediary code, the programmer just sees executable native code at the end of the pipe, but the C is there in an intermediary step. 

--marcs