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 TAA28993; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:43:10 +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 TAA26620 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:43:09 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail.cs.unm.edu (webmail.cs.unm.edu [64.106.20.39]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5FHh5EV013486 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:43:08 +0200 Received: from hobbs.cs.unm.edu ([64.106.21.108]) by mail.cs.unm.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BaHxb-0001Aq-00; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:42:59 -0600 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:42:54 -0600 (MDT) From: "William D. Neumann" To: Richard Jones cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml compared as a scripting language In-Reply-To: <20040615171535.GA14773@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <20040614095216.GA8184@redhat.com> <20040614162907.GA17265@redhat.com> <40CE99EE.9030105@bik-gmbh.de> <200406151613.i5FGDN7k030987@waco.inria.fr> <20040615171535.GA14773@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanner: exiscan *1BaHxb-0001Aq-00*VjKnTXY0hMg* X-Scanner: exiscan *1BaHxb-0001Aq-00*VjKnTXY0hMg* X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 40CF3529.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 verbose:01 cobol:01 memories:01 cobol:01 rank:99 unlambda:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 lisp:01 heh:01 wrote:03 neumann:03 neumann:03 perl:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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." -- Jarvis Cocker Think of XML as Lisp for COBOL programmers. -- Tony-A (some guy on /.) ------------------- 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