From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DFF1BCAE for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 21:21:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pih-relay04.plus.net (pih-relay04.plus.net [212.159.14.131]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j6IJLIgl023356 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 21:21:19 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=chetara) by pih-relay04.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1DubAy-0004cf-5T for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:21:16 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] (Mostly) Functional Design? Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:19:12 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <9cc3782b05071411004b27b6a4@mail.gmail.com> <42DBF1C6.7080005@cs.utah.edu> <1244.82.233.141.201.1121712972.squirrel@mail.irisa.fr> In-Reply-To: <1244.82.233.141.201.1121712972.squirrel@mail.irisa.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507182019.13037.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 42DC012E.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 irisa:01 tracer:01 tracer:01 frog:98 presenta:98 wrote:01 caml:02 functional:02 languages:03 languages:03 comparison:03 long:04 i'd:05 practical:06 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: On Monday 18 July 2005 19:56, padiolea@irisa.fr wrote: > Recently richard jones have made a webpage where he presents > side by side the code of a raytracer done in caml and one done in c++. > This page is very interesting because there is no long boring > advocacy (such as what I am doing now) but a practical example. Do you mean my pages? http://www.ffconsultancy.com/free/ray_tracer/comparison.html http://www.ffconsultancy.com/free/ray_tracer/languages.html I'd like to make more practical comparisons of such languages but I think this simple ray tracer is especially good because it packs so many different problems into a single program. As you say, the results speak for themselves. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. Technical Presentation Software http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/presenta