From: "David McClain" <dmcclain1@mindspring.com>
To: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] language story on slashdot
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:30:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00b401c108b6$0be0da80$210148bf@dylan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010709050838.A13710@jean>
I just read the Ruby site info, and I am puzzled about why one would use
Ruby instead of Smalltalk?
On another topic...
> giggling and naked, I'd just like to see OCaml get more popular than, say,
> Lisp.
I find it interesting that you percieve Lisp as more popular. I, personally,
find Lisp to be the ultimate modeling clay language, and OCaml the ultimate
production code language -- where I can be assured of no nasty surprises
after six months of use.
There seems to be a general consensus forming that Lisp is very effective
for many problems, but expertise requires on the order of 5 - 10 years of
experience.
But the Lisp users also bemoan lack of popularity. I think it requires a
special personality of user to appreciate multiple languages and enjoy each
of them.
- DM
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-09 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-09 2:20 leary
2001-07-09 10:33 ` Chris Hecker
2001-07-09 12:08 ` leary
2001-07-09 20:30 ` David McClain [this message]
2001-07-09 14:23 ` Bruce Hoult
2001-07-10 0:12 ` dsf
2001-07-10 8:35 ` Pierre Weis
2001-07-11 14:31 ` John Max Skaller
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