From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA26891 for caml-red; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:02:26 +0100 (MET) 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 HAA00916 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 07:51:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost.localdomain (jimbo108.zip.com.au [202.7.88.108]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f096puL12391 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 07:51:56 +0100 (MET) Received: from ozemail.com.au (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA30523; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:50:11 +1100 Message-ID: <3A5AB4A2.F3F22854@ozemail.com.au> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 17:50:10 +1100 From: John Max Skaller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12-20 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Markus Mottl CC: "Joseph R. Kiniry" , OCAML , Mattias Waldau Subject: Re: JIT-compilation for OCaml? References: <20010102203051.A18481@miss.wu-wien.ac.at> <49780000.978544197@kind.kindsoftware.com> <20010103191903.B29666@miss.wu-wien.ac.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr Markus Mottl wrote: > though I'd never want > to switch to Java when I can use OCaml, it isn't this bad compared to > other mainstream languages. At least some major insanities have been > removed. It has a serious faulty static type system, idiotic object orientation, no generics, isn't compatible with C, uses the worst features of C/C++ syntax, is inefficient to compile, load, and run, doesn't interface well, uses Unicode instead of ISO-10646, has a hodge podge library, is less portable than C, C++ or Eiffel, stuffed up finalisation ... Surely, Java is the worst modern language around. It is an inexcusably travesty, when so much good theory is around, and C compatibility is not required. -- John (Max) Skaller, mailto:skaller@maxtal.com.au 10/1 Toxteth Rd Glebe NSW 2037 Australia voice: 61-2-9660-0850 checkout Vyper http://Vyper.sourceforge.net download Interscript http://Interscript.sourceforge.net