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 VAA31110; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:22:00 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA02666 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:21:58 +0200 (MET DST) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from heinrich.complete.org (gatekeeper.excelhustler.com [68.99.114.105]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5FJLvSH014289 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:21:58 +0200 Received: by heinrich.complete.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5BD0D7E9; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:23:10 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:23:10 -0500 From: John Goerzen To: Karl Zilles Cc: Richard Jones , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml compared as a scripting language Message-ID: <20040615192310.GB17934@complete.org> References: <20040614095216.GA8184@redhat.com> <20040614162907.GA17265@redhat.com> <40CE99EE.9030105@bik-gmbh.de> <200406151613.i5FGDN7k030987@waco.inria.fr> <20040615171535.GA14773@redhat.com> <20040615173513.GB13863@complete.org> <40CF3D0C.6060805@1969.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40CF3D0C.6060805@1969.ws> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 40CF4C55.000 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 merd:01 sourceforge:01 ocaml:01 0700,:01 fewer:02 complex:03 wrote:03 perl:03 scripting:05 syntactic:07 john:09 tue:09 pixel:10 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 11:16:44AM -0700, Karl Zilles wrote: > Wow! That's 4 extra characters! It was one example. Look at the grep example at http://merd.sourceforge.net/pixel/language-study/scripting-language/#grep for a much more significant difference. > There is a lot of syntactic sugar in perl (especially for i/o) that > makes simple programs very small. As the program grows more complex, > the benefits are fewer. ------------------- 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