Re: [Caml-list] productivity improvement

[Jeffrey Palmer <jeffrey.palmer@acm.org>]

Hello all. I have a request.

Can we please cease the C++ flamefest? Some of us are not able to choose 
our implementation language quite as easily as others, and, frankly, 
endless discussions about language X's failings just irritate the 
people that are forced to use X daily. Making blanket statements like 
"language X clearly isn't good for anything" is just ridiculous - 
nothing is ever that clear cut. 

If we were to talk about the aspects of C++ (or Java, or ...) that we 
could apply to ocaml, that might be a different story (there might not 
be many!)

For my part, I'm under the impression that cross-module functor 
specializations (terminology?) in ocaml, akin to C++ template 
instantiation, are not optimized in the same manner as C++ templates 
(compiled away). Is this true? This is a killer for me, as I can't even 
afford the overhead of a function call (don't ask).

I would love to be able to write my product in ocaml, and plop a C++ 
wrapper on top of it, but practicalities unfortunately make this an 
impossibility. I need to do things similar to Blitz, which I suppose 
dooms me to template hell. ;)

	- j

-- 
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The blackbird must be flying.

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