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 NAA25479; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:00:27 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA25510 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:00:26 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA22811 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 11:35:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail.interaktif.net.tr ([62.248.102.120]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9F9Z1D23908 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 11:35:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from abn166-176.ank-avrupa-ports.kablonet.net.tr (unknown [195.174.166.176]) by mail.interaktif.net.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C5F71E6EF; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:32:05 +0300 (EEST) From: Eray Ozkural Organization: Bilkent University CS Dept. To: Alessandro Baretta , Oleg Subject: Re: [Caml-list] productivity improvement Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:31:18 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.5 Cc: caml-list References: <20020716172916.4903.qmail@web10702.mail.yahoo.com> <200207182313.TAA19905@dewberry.cc.columbia.edu> <3D376AA1.8090308@baretta.com> In-Reply-To: <3D376AA1.8090308@baretta.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200210151231.18731.erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr> Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Friday 19 July 2002 04:25, Alessandro Baretta wrote: > > > P.P.S. My primary interest is statistical AI (artificial neural > > networks). I haven't found any relevant libraries or applications in SML > > or O'Caml. That is a bit discouraging. > > I have a feeling that O'Caml was born out INRIA's need for a > language to use in symbolic AI projects. The two worlds seem > to be very difficult to reconcile. > Interesting, but I still think ocaml maintains its superiority not only in traditional string and list processing but algorithmic prowess as well. I have a feeling I can beat any ANN implementation written in C++ for that matter ;) I was writing a generic ANN library in C++ and found it to be quite difficult to put together different kinds of networks and algorithms in the same basket. It would really benefit from a well designed generic graph library which I can imagine would be possible only in a functional language. Cheers, -- Eray Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo GPG public key fingerprint: 360C 852F 88B0 A745 F31B EA0F 7C07 AE16 874D 539C ------------------- 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