Dear All,

I am an applied scientist in the areas of signal processing and error 
correction at Philips Research. Having done the programming work of my 
computer simulations in C/C++ for almost 10-15 years with increasingly 
mixed feelings about the languange, a friend pointed me to functional 
programming. This way I found ocaml and I must say I am very enthusiastic 
about it. The built-in arrays, the functions that are really meta 
functions and remove a lot of tedious programming and debugging. Also the 
combined availability of an interpreter and compiler is comforbable and 
not unlike matlab (which I hate). 

I am also intrigued by the promise of functional languages when multi-core 
computers will be the defacto standard. 

Attached please find the first program I wrote. It has about the same 
speed as its C++ counterpart (slightly faster). I welcome comments w.r.t. 
programming style, esp. when it affects the speed of the program.

Regards,

Andries Hekstra




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