From: "David McClain" <dmcclain1@mindspring.com>
To: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] generic functions
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 10:17:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001901c4f66f$3370f4e0$0401000a@dylan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0501090907240.5563-100000@localhost.localdomain>
> With the exception of certain artificial contests (Paul Graham) I've never
> met a real world problem that needed overloading, or even benefitted
> signifigantly from overloading that didn't benefit just as much or more
> from one of the solutions above.
I would mention ad-hoc, interactive, engineering computing, e.g., NML,
Mathematica, MatLab, where generic functions and overloading are extremely
useful. But none of these languages can produce safe code, and I would never
recommend using any of them for production releases of software. OCaml =
strong safety. NML and others = fast interactive exploratory programming,
but not safe.
David McClain
Senior Corporate Scientist
Avisere, Inc.
+1.520.390.7738 (USA)
david.mcclain@avisere.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-09 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-09 13:19 wiedergaenger
2005-01-09 14:56 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2005-01-09 15:48 ` Brian Hurt
2005-01-09 17:17 ` David McClain [this message]
2005-01-09 18:09 ` brogoff
2005-01-09 18:45 ` padiolea
2005-01-10 0:23 ` skaller
2005-01-11 12:14 ` Daniel Yokomizo
2005-01-10 9:55 ` [Caml-list] " Alex Baretta
2005-01-10 10:47 ` Olivier Andrieu
2005-01-10 12:16 ` Alex Baretta
2005-01-12 23:49 ` Aleksey Nogin
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