From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA21221; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:59:58 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA21466 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:59:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mel-rto4.wanadoo.fr (smtp-out-4.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.23]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g697xur26447 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:59:56 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mel-rta8.wanadoo.fr (193.252.19.79) by mel-rto4.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3D18589F007C51C1; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:59:55 +0200 Received: from warp (217.128.142.232) by mel-rta8.wanadoo.fr (6.5.007) id 3D2A78F60000EB87; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:59:55 +0200 Message-ID: <001f01c2271e$8037adf0$d100a8c0@warp> From: "Nicolas Cannasse" To: "Oleg" , "OCaml" References: <200207081952.PAA28813@hickory.cc.columbia.edu> <15657.61603.221054.289184@spike.artisan.com> <200207090442.AAA05638@hickory.cc.columbia.edu> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Universal Serializer (was: productivity improvement) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:59:00 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > > This is no an ocaml specific productivity improvement but the ability > > to marshal a data structure without having to write any data structure > > specific code is very productive. BTW OCaml functional programming and memory management are two ways of increasing productivity. Pattern matching on structures is also wonderful. For most of the programs, I will say that the productivity rate against C is around 1:3. Nicolas Cannasse ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners