From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 531B1BB9A for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:12:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ptb-relay03.plus.net (ptb-relay03.plus.net [212.159.14.214]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j95DCnJD028926 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:12:50 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=chetara) by ptb-relay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1EN94Z-0007gU-SB for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:12:40 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: FP/IP and performance (in general) and Patterns... (Re: [Caml-list] Avoiding shared data) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:08:52 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20051003200337.14092.qmail@web26809.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <8008871f0510041539r1d2b242fifcd09cf32ba394fa@mail.gmail.com> <20051005121028.GA757@first.in-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <20051005121028.GA757@first.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510051408.53040.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4343D151.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 avoiding:01 oliver:01 bandel:01 lacks:01 ocaml:01 ...:98 frog:98 wrote:01 patterns:02 data:02 caml:02 objective:02 programming:03 programming:03 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 On Wednesday 05 October 2005 13:10, Oliver Bandel wrote: > For example, I'm not really a fan of OO-programming, but when > programming GUI-software I think it would be the best choice, > and FP-programming lacks flexibility here (if not using > a DSL to create GUI-code, which then is separately compiled). I am finding ordinary FP perfectly adequate for GUI programming. My GUI programming may be unorthodox, however. :-) -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. Objective CAML for Scientists http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists