From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA19878 for caml-red; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 12:05:09 +0200 (MET DST) 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 TAA11453 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 19:07:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from cepheus.azstarnet.com (cepheus.azstarnet.com [169.197.56.195]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e9CH7Ff24380 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 19:07:15 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from dylan (dialup07ip083.tus.azstarnet.com [169.197.33.83]) by cepheus.azstarnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA21451 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 10:07:06 -0700 (MST) X-Sent-via: StarNet http://www.azstarnet.com/ Message-ID: <000d01c0346f$6138a3d0$210148bf@dylan> From: "David McClain" To: Subject: Re: SML/NJ versus O'Caml Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 10:10:52 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr ...but the OCaml team didn't write that stuff, they just put them up on their site! As one of the commenters on that site, I did a fairly lengthy comparison of languages including SML and OCaml among about a dozen others and finally settled on OCaml for its speed, ease of foreign function integration, type safety, available documentation, and terseness of expression. My first real trial of OCaml was a very complicated numeric analysis of optical performance. I worked for two solid weeks in another language and it still didn't quite work correctly. After three intense days with OCaml, including writing a bunch of supporting C code to handle graphical displays, I managed to get an analysis program that worked correctly the first time out of the chute -- no debugging necessary! Cheers, David McClain, Sr. Scientist, Raytheon Systems Co., Tucson, AZ -----Original Message----- From: Gabriel Dos_Reis Newsgroups: comp.lang.ml To: comp-lang-ml@moderators.isc.org Date: Thursday, October 12, 2000 6:34 AM Subject: Re: SML/NJ versus O'Caml >"Mattias Waldau" writes: > >| I found this information myself: >| >| http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/users_comments-fra.html >| >| and it is very positive about O'Caml. > >No offense intended, but given the address the contrary would have >surprised me :-) > >-- Gaby >