From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id IAA00470; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:19:08 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f 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 IAA06112 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:19:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from outbound28-2.lax.untd.com (vlan1-1.bigip2.lax.untd.com [64.136.28.160]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i3E6K6jq011939 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:20:07 +0200 Received: from outbound28-2.lax.untd.com (smtp03.lax.untd.com [10.130.24.123]) by smtpout06.lax.untd.com with SMTP id AABAH3X7BAJ2TPMA for (sender ); Tue, 13 Apr 2004 23:18:09 -0700 (PST) Received: (qmail 429 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2004 06:17:31 -0000 Received: from dsc04-sei-wa-207-220-158-234.rasserver.net (HELO vangogh) (207.220.158.234) by smtp03.lax.untd.com with SMTP; 14 Apr 2004 06:17:31 -0000 From: "Brandon J. Van Every" To: Subject: RE: [Caml-list] suggestion: do not link to www.ocaml.org Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 23:26:26 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20040414053414.GA25712@tallman.kefka.frap.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Importance: Normal X-ContentStamp: 10:5:1746229767 X-MAIL-INFO: 01ee57d7b323e7ee6fdfee7a020ab36f1bfb2a0a0afbb302fb8f3bfb8f5ade8f83badb2a2e33830733831393839f7e5b8b X-Miltered: at nez-perce by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; brandon:99 caml-list:01 knowles:99 brandon:99 haskell:01 suffices:01 scripted:01 seattle:99 2004:99 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 garbage:01 byte:01 primitives:01 native:02 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 306 Kenneth Knowles [mailto:kknowles@berkeley.edu] > Brandon J. Van Every wrote: > > A number of other languages have the features, and some have > > much better libraries, packages, and industrial provenness. > > What OCaml apparently has is performance. > > Haskell is the only non-ML language I am familiar with that > has similar features > to OCaml, could you share some others? I'm always interested > in new languages with advanced safety features. I suppose I should have said 'many of the features'. I would note that industry cares the least about advanced type safety. C# .NET Managed Code suffices for now. OCaml seems to offer a combination that other languages lack in part: 1) garbage collected 2) performance. Lotsa languages can't manage 1 + 2! 3) native compiled, byte compiled, or scripted 4) type safety 5) high level language primitives 6) functional or imperative Cheers, www.indiegamedesign.com Brandon Van Every Seattle, WA Taking risk where others will not. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.643 / Virus Database: 411 - Release Date: 3/25/2004 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners