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 2C318BB81 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 10:38:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k259cvRX015735 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 10:38:57 +0100 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 KAA22995 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 10:38:56 +0100 (MET) Received: from furbychan.cocan.org (furbychan.cocan.org [80.68.91.176]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k259ctOM006320 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2006 10:38:56 +0100 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1FFpgn-0000wt-00; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 09:38:09 +0000 Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 09:38:09 +0000 To: David Teller Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Benchmarks against imperative languages Message-ID: <20060305093809.GA3206@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <20060304143608.GA16996@ours.starynkevitch.net> <1141495285.5303.20.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1141495285.5303.20.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 440AB1B1.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 440AB1AF.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 gcc:01 iirc:01 compares:01 notepad:01 fascinating:98 wrote:01 imperative:01 bugs:03 programming:03 languages:03 loc:03 logic:04 marketing:93 written:06 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 Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 06:01:25PM +0000, David Teller wrote: > Unfortunately... I don't know about MySQL, but both gcc and Firefox are > applications which shouldn't have been written in C/C++ in the first > place[...] I picked up on Firefox too. PrinceXML[1] (which is commercial software) is kind-of a Firefox equivalent, and IIRC it's written in some sort of interesting logic programming language. It would be fascinating to find out how many LOC it contains and how it compares to Firefox in other ways (bugs, speed, maintainability, etc.) Rich. [1] http://www.princexml.com/overview/ -- Richard Jones, CTO Merjis Ltd. Merjis - web marketing and technology - http://merjis.com Team Notepad - intranets and extranets for business - http://team-notepad.com