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 TAA30883; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:15:38 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f 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 TAA01263 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:15:37 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from aomori.annexia.org (annexia.force9.co.uk [212.56.101.183]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5FHFaEV010032 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:15:36 +0200 Received: from rich by aomori.annexia.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BaHX5-0003qe-00 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:15:35 +0100 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:15:35 +0100 Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml compared as a scripting language Message-ID: <20040615171535.GA14773@redhat.com> References: <20040614095216.GA8184@redhat.com> <20040614162907.GA17265@redhat.com> <40CE99EE.9030105@bik-gmbh.de> <200406151613.i5FGDN7k030987@waco.inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200406151613.i5FGDN7k030987@waco.inria.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 40CF2EB8.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 2004:99 biased:01 verbosity:01 verbose:01 cobol:01 ltd:98 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 0200,:01 comparison:02 wrote:03 perl:03 perl:03 horribly:04 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 06:13:23PM +0200, Bruno.Verlyck@inria.fr wrote: > Anyway, all those language comparisons are always biased; is `program > length' a good measure of scripting capacity ? It turns the > comparison into a shortest script challenge, doesn't it ? Actually it's not a bad measure. One of the reasons I prefer Perl over Java, and OCaml over Perl, is verbosity. On a scale of length of programs: OCaml < Perl <<<<<<< Java In fact I don't think I've ever seen anything as horribly verbose (and useless) as Java. COBOL perhaps? Rich. -- Richard Jones. http://www.annexia.org/ http://www.j-london.com/ Merjis Ltd. http://www.merjis.com/ - improving website return on investment http://www.YouUnlimited.co.uk/ - management courses ------------------- 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