From: John Max Skaller <skaller@maxtal.com.au>
To: Brian Rogoff <bpr@best.com>
Cc: Markus Mottl <mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: When functional languages can be accepted by industry?
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 05:22:54 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3900AA8E.AFB8AD93@maxtal.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004200946580.9829-100000@shell5.ba.best.com>
Brian Rogoff wrote:
> Absolutely! This is a point I have been making for a while, that the point
> of comparison should be Perl, Python, and even Java. OCaml performance is
> excellent when compared to these languages.
I don't agree with this. The reason is: ocaml has a much nicer
type system than C++. I would rather write code in it, than C++.
So I'd like it to be faster than C++ as well as nicer :-)
> (3) The OCaml error messaging, which makes worse the problem most people
> already have with the unfamiliar type system
This can be improved with time I imagine.
[Error handling is a lot of work]
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-04-25 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-03 1:27 Dennis (Gang) Chen
2000-04-06 16:51 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2000-04-07 5:27 ` Dennis (Gang) Chen
[not found] ` <14574.1721.508470.790475@cylinder.csl.sri.com>
2000-04-11 0:24 ` Dennis (Gang) Chen
2000-04-11 17:58 ` Pierre Weis
2000-04-12 1:45 ` Dennis (Gang) Chen
2000-04-12 17:27 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2000-04-13 15:40 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-14 19:16 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-12 18:06 ` David Brown
2000-04-13 1:23 ` Dennis (Gang) Chen
2000-04-13 14:36 ` Pierre Weis
2000-04-13 6:53 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2000-04-13 12:20 ` Frank Atanassow
2000-04-13 17:28 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-13 12:28 ` Steve Stevenson
2000-04-13 13:38 ` jean-marc alliot
2000-04-13 16:00 ` William Chesters
2000-04-13 14:29 ` T. Kurt Bond
2000-04-13 17:23 ` Julian Assange
2000-04-16 16:33 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-17 15:06 ` Markus Mottl
2000-04-17 19:55 ` John Prevost
2000-04-24 2:36 ` Chris Tilt
2000-04-14 9:19 ` The beginning of a library for Formal algebra and numerical Analysis Christophe Raffalli
2000-04-14 9:32 ` Caml wish list Christophe Raffalli
2000-04-19 11:40 ` thierry BRAVIER
2000-04-19 13:45 ` William Chesters
2000-04-19 20:45 ` Christophe Raffalli
2000-04-25 18:16 ` Pierre Weis
2000-05-10 4:50 ` reference initialization Hongwei Xi
2000-05-11 13:58 ` Pierre Weis
2000-05-11 18:59 ` Hongwei Xi
2000-05-12 17:07 ` Pierre Weis
2000-05-12 19:59 ` Hongwei Xi
2000-05-15 6:58 ` Max Skaller
2000-05-15 17:56 ` Hongwei Xi
2000-05-14 14:37 ` John Max Skaller
2000-05-13 7:07 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2000-05-13 7:09 ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2000-05-11 16:02 ` John Prevost
2000-04-13 16:59 ` When functional languages can be accepted by industry? John Max Skaller
2000-04-15 22:29 ` William Chesters
2000-04-16 22:24 ` Nickolay Semyonov
2000-04-18 6:52 ` Max Skaller
2000-04-17 12:51 ` jean-marc alliot
2000-04-17 17:49 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-17 22:34 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-19 15:31 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-19 18:30 ` Michael Hicks
2000-04-20 16:40 ` Markus Mottl
2000-04-20 17:58 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-20 18:52 ` Markus Mottl
2000-04-21 20:44 ` Michael Hohn
2000-04-21 19:22 ` John Max Skaller [this message]
2000-04-21 19:09 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-21 19:45 ` Markus Mottl
2000-04-21 19:56 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-21 19:18 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-18 10:53 ` Sven LUTHER
2000-04-19 15:57 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-13 7:05 ` Pierre Weis
2000-04-13 17:04 ` Julian Assange
2000-04-07 15:44 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-17 12:57 FALCON Gilles FTRD/DTL/LAN
2000-04-17 15:35 ` Xavier Leroy
2000-04-18 5:54 ` Francois Pottier
2000-04-19 14:53 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2000-04-19 15:17 ` Claude Marche
2000-04-20 1:44 ` Max Skaller
2000-04-20 3:01 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2000-04-21 0:41 ` Jacques Garrigue
2000-04-21 19:35 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-21 20:53 ` Michael Hohn
2000-04-25 10:50 ` Remi VANICAT
2000-04-20 1:52 ` Max Skaller
2000-04-20 3:08 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2000-04-20 2:51 ` Max Skaller
2000-04-20 17:17 ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2000-04-17 22:24 bdb-as-camluser
2000-04-20 12:45 Gerd Stolpmann
2000-04-21 19:56 ` John Max Skaller
2000-04-22 18:30 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2000-04-23 3:20 ` John Max Skaller
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