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From: Thomas Fischbacher <Thomas.Fischbacher@Physik.Uni-Muenchen.DE>
To: Tom Hawkins <tom@confluent.org>
Cc: Ray Heasman <lists@mythral.org>,
	cf-user Mailing List <cf-user@confluent.org>,
	caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: [cf-user] HDCaml 0.2.0
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 22:52:11 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511052249310.2364@eiger.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <436CF6E4.8060307@confluent.org>


On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Tom Hawkins wrote:

> OCaml and Haskell programmers have an expression: "Once it compiles, it
> usually just works!"

Well, at least not from my experience. This may be true as long as you do 
algorithmically un-interesting things, but in practice, for code that uses 
more involved bookkeeping, one often still has to do quite extensive 
debugging.

Besides this, I think that HDCaml is a quite neat approach.

-- 
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)


      reply	other threads:[~2005-11-05 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-04 18:26 Tom Hawkins
     [not found] ` <1131138146.26370.11.camel@maze.mythral.org>
2005-11-05 18:16   ` [cf-user] " Tom Hawkins
2005-11-05 21:52     ` Thomas Fischbacher [this message]

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