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 TAA07839; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:59:42 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA07799 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:59:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from herd.plethora.net (herd.plethora.net [205.166.146.1]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5HHxdSH011620 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:59:40 +0200 Received: from bhurt.plethora.net (bhurt.plethora.net [205.166.146.49]) by herd.plethora.net (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id i5HHxXi20619 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:59:33 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:05:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Brian Hurt X-X-Sender: bhurt@localhost.localdomain To: Ocaml Mailing List Subject: [Caml-list] Great Programming Language Shootout Revived Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 40D1DC0B.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; shootout:01 who've:01 ranking:99 damned:01 ocaml's:01 mlton:01 ocaml's:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 ocaml-:01 sml:01 advertising:97 ruby:02 nested:02 redirect:95 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Thought I'd point this article out for the people who've stopped reading slashdot: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/16/1622211&mode=nested&tid=126&tid=156&tid=185&tid=90 The original GPLS was the best advertising Ocaml ever had. It's why I learned Ocaml- I discovered the original GPLS and started noticing Ocaml ranking among the top scorers for fastest execution, least memory used, and fewest lines of code, and said to myself "I've got to check that language out- obviously there's something going on there." What's starting to happen, now that the project has started up again, is advocates/supporters of other languages have started to submit improved versions of the code for their languages. For example, I notice that Ocaml has dropped from it's #1 place in least lines of code to #2, with Ruby taking the lead. I don't think we need to make a big thing out of this (hey, #2 across the board is pretty damned good- we're beating both Java and C++ across the board, in fact the only other language that comes close to Ocaml's performance is, unsurprisingly, version of SML- MLton and SML/NJ). But if you have some spare time, and want to help out Ocaml's marketing, wander over. -- "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." - Gene Spafford Brian ------------------- 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