From: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: Martin Chabr <martin_chabr@yahoo.de>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: Ant: [Caml-list] The "Objective" part of Objective Caml
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:47:53 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1131414473.23991.37.camel@rosella> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87acggxguw.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 22:55 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Martin Chabr:
>
> > --- Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> >
> >> I was a bit surprised when I started playing with Caml objects. I
> >> couldn't find a definite reference, but it seems that the object
> >> system was indeed inspired by the "Objective" family of languages
> >> (the "evolutionary approach" to add a Smalltalk-like object system
> >> described by Brad Cox in the 80s, later picked up by NeXT). Is
> >> this really the case? Or is the similarity just a coincidence?
> >
> > The object oriented part of OCaml is roughly speaking
> > just as capable as that of Python, C++, Java, C# etc.
>
> Sure, I don't doubt that.
I do. The Python system is much more 'capable' and much less 'robust'.
This is typical for dynamic typing vs static typing.
--
John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net>
Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-08 1:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-04 22:45 Florian Weimer
2005-11-07 21:41 ` Ant: [Caml-list] " Martin Chabr
2005-11-07 21:55 ` Florian Weimer
2005-11-08 1:47 ` skaller [this message]
2005-11-08 2:15 ` Brian Hurt
2005-11-08 7:15 ` Daniel Bünzli
2005-11-08 15:02 ` Brian Hurt
2005-11-08 15:39 ` Alexander Fuchs
2005-11-08 15:42 ` Matt Gushee
2005-11-08 15:56 ` Michael Wohlwend
2005-11-08 18:16 ` brogoff
2005-11-08 22:04 ` Brian Hurt
2005-11-08 23:40 ` brogoff
2005-11-09 9:00 ` skaller
2005-11-11 15:28 ` Florian Weimer
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