From: Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons <dofp.ocaml@gmail.com>
To: Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Why isn't there a common platform for functional language interaction ?
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:44:01 +0100 [thread overview]
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On 10 December 2011 13:58, Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>wrote:
> There already exist such a common denominator language. For
> performance reasons, it is architecture-dependent
[...]
>
There have been plans to move to a better common denominator, or at
> least a better bridge language (C--, LLVM, ...)
>
Why should that be a low-level language ? Why not core-ML ?
What I see as the very first issue is the spread of the efforts between
similar yet incompatible ML dialects leading to 4 weak communities (SML,
OCaml, F#, Haskell) instead of a really strong one and all the related
problems that come with it (fewer books, risk for industrials, work
duplication, inefficient funding, lack of visibility, etc).
Example : there is an excellent whole source code optimiser ... for SML.
And an award winning SMT solver ... in Caml developed in a company that
invests heavily in information-centric web applications ... in F# (
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/z3/ if you don't
know Nikolaj Bjorner's Z3). Now say you want to do an application that
delivers optimal electricity production plans. What language do you choose ?
Just being able to reuse the source-code between string ML dialects even
after recompilation (X -> CoreML -> specific platform) would be an
improvement.
Diego Olivier
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-10 10:36 Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons
2011-12-10 12:23 ` Stéphane Glondu
2011-12-10 12:38 ` rixed
2011-12-10 13:54 ` oliver
2011-12-10 12:58 ` Gabriel Scherer
2011-12-10 18:00 ` Florian Hars
2011-12-10 20:44 ` Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons [this message]
2011-12-10 21:14 ` Philippe Strauss
2012-11-18 17:26 ` Jon Harrop
2011-12-10 14:15 ` Jon Harrop
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