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 RAA08530; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:25:07 +0100 (MET) 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 RAA09468 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:25:05 +0100 (MET) Received: from hirsch.in-berlin.de (hirsch.in-berlin.de [192.109.42.6]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h2EGP5X01665 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:25:05 +0100 (MET) Received: from hirsch.in-berlin.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hirsch.in-berlin.de (8.12.8/8.12.8/Debian-2) with ESMTP id h2EGP4Rr028171 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:25:04 +0100 Received: from first.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by hirsch.in-berlin.de (8.12.8/8.12.8/Debian-2) with UUCP id h2EGP4fF028169 for inria.fr!caml-list; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:25:04 +0100 X-Envelope-From: oliver@first.in-berlin.de X-Envelope-To: inria.fr!caml-list Received: by first.in-berlin.de via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.114) Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:38:54 +0100 (CET) From: oliver@first.in-berlin.de (Oliver Bandel) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:38:54 +0100 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity Message-ID: <20030314153853.GA397@first.in-berlin.de> References: <200303111023.LAA09578@pauillac.inria.fr> <20030311190230.13615.qmail@web10304.mail.yahoo.com> <20030312171242.GA11435@redhat.com> <20030313021517.GA29102@force.stwing.upenn.edu> <20030313095232.GC347@first.in-berlin.de> <20030313205010.GA7956@force.stwing.upenn.edu> <20030313211702.GA884@first.in-berlin.de> <20030314063349.GA16830@roke.freak> <20030314115013.GB19715@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030314115013.GB19715@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam: no; 0.00; oliver:01 in-berlin:01 bandel:01 caml-list:01 michal:01 moskal:01 verbose:01 verbosity:01 ocaml:01 simpler:01 constructs:02 mottl:02 ciao:02 wrote:03 annoying:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:50:13PM +0100, Markus Mottl wrote: > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Michal Moskal wrote: > > I don't believe replacing perl scripts with ocaml ones is The Right > > Thing to do... Just because in simple cases perl or sh is going to be > > twice as short. OCaml mainly favors programming in large. > > "Short" <> "written quickly". Yes, I agree here fully. If you had asked me this last week, I would have a different opinion. But I now have seen this very impressive. > OCaml is certainly more verbose than > Perl or sh for scripting tasks, but this hardly adds to the development > time. But on the first view this is not to see! I often thought, that verbosity is annoying, and perls "short constructs" are useful to achieve faster development. I recently saw that this is not the case. But I'm shure, that it is a very common assumption.... > Writing down a function call instead of some funny Perl-operator > only requires a second more, but makes parsing scripts much simpler > for humans. [...] ACK. Ciao, Oliver ------------------- 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