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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