From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E5F7BC8B for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 02:12:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de (mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de [192.54.42.129]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j1D1CnoX007626 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 02:12:49 +0100 Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA2F220036; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 02:12:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23264-01-19; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 02:12:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from mailhost.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (kaiser.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de [141.84.136.1]) by mail.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40B902000A; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 02:12:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from eiger.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (eiger.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de [141.84.136.54]) by mailhost.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D666026E87; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 02:12:46 +0100 (CET) Received: by eiger.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix, from userid 3092) id 43F653CBC; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 02:12:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eiger.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 419112D713; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 02:12:39 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 02:12:39 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Fischbacher To: Michael Walter Cc: Brian Hurt , skaller , Jon , caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The boon of static type checking In-Reply-To: <877e9a17050212145737cc30d6@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <877e9a17050206221653d14456@mail.gmail.com> <877e9a17050212145737cc30d6@mail.gmail.com> X-BOFH: Daemons did it MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at physik.uni-muenchen.de X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 420EA991.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 wrote:01 cip:98 cip:98 lambda:01 lambda:01 checking:01 debian:02 physik:02 physik:02 gnu:03 tradeoff:03 tradeoff:03 static:03 problem:05 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Michael Walter wrote: > What I'm saying is that choosing a language is a tradeoff, and the > kind of tradeoff C++ gives you can be a very good one (if not the > best) for particular problem domains. Which would be for example? -- regards, tf@cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de (o_ Thomas Fischbacher - http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~tf //\ (lambda (n) ((lambda (p q r) (p p q r)) (lambda (g x y) V_/_ (if (= x 0) y (g g (- x 1) (* x y)))) n 1)) (Debian GNU)