From: "William D. Neumann" <wneumann@cs.unm.edu>
To: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml compared as a scripting language
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:42:54 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0406151133520.17680@hobbs.cs.unm.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040615171535.GA14773@redhat.com>
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Richard Jones wrote:
> OCaml < Perl <<<<<<< Java
>
> In fact I don't think I've ever seen anything as horribly verbose (and
> useless) as Java. COBOL perhaps?
Mmmmm... now you're bringing back the memories. Yeah, I think COBOL
pretty much has to rank as one of the least dense programming languages
out there (not counting fringe stuff like unlambda) -- especially if you
go all "hardcore" and type things like MULTIPLY A BY B GIVING C. instead
of C = A * B.
Heh. COBOL was fun.
William D. Neumann
---
"Well I could be a genius, if I just put my mind to it.
And I...I could do anything, if only I could get 'round to it.
Oh we were brought up on the space-race, now they expect you to clean toilets.
When you've seen how big the world is, how can you make do with this?
If you want me, I'll be sleeping in - sleeping in throughout these glory days."
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Think of XML as Lisp for COBOL programmers.
-- Tony-A (some guy on /.)
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-14 9:52 Richard Jones
2004-06-14 15:55 ` Brian Hurt
2004-06-14 16:29 ` Richard Jones
2004-06-15 6:40 ` Florian Hars
2004-06-15 16:13 ` Bruno.Verlyck
2004-06-15 17:15 ` Richard Jones
2004-06-15 17:35 ` John Goerzen
2004-06-15 18:16 ` Karl Zilles
2004-06-15 19:23 ` John Goerzen
2004-06-15 21:17 ` Alex Baretta
2004-06-16 2:12 ` skaller
2004-06-15 17:41 ` Jon Harrop
2004-06-15 17:42 ` William D. Neumann [this message]
2004-06-15 18:27 Hellflame
2004-06-15 20:07 ` Brian Hurt
2004-06-16 2:26 ` skaller
2004-06-16 11:00 ` sejourne kevin
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