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 JAA10183; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 09:00:30 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA10047 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 09:00:29 +0200 (MET DST) 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 CAA06970 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 02:57:56 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from dsf.net (adsl-63-196-84-93.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [63.196.84.93]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f580vsf12865 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 02:57:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dsf@localhost) by dsf.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f580uR805969; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 17:56:27 -0700 To: Miles Egan Cc: William Chesters , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml complexity References: <20010606095041.A93623@caddr.com> <15134.34352.642598.605606@beertje.william.bogus> <20010607173217.B15205@caddr.com> From: David Fox Date: 07 Jun 2001 17:56:27 -0700 In-Reply-To: Miles Egan's message of "Thu, 7 Jun 2001 17:32:17 -0700" Message-ID: X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Miles Egan writes: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 09:36:16PM +0200, William Chesters wrote: > > Miles Egan writes: > > Objectively, C++ is much harder to learn than ocaml and you have to be > > _brilliant_ to make the most of it without getting into trouble. The > > point surely is that people are more familiar, or at least feel > > embarrassed about being unfamiliar, with the _jargon_ of C++ as > > against that of ocaml. > > C++ is certainly a pathological worst case, and I can't really think > of another language as baroque and confusing (certainly not Ocaml). Not to belabor the obvious, but C++ has the huge advantage of being (for all practical purposes) a superset of C. Its like the mother of all tutorials. ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr