From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml compared as a scripting language
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:15:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040615171535.GA14773@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200406151613.i5FGDN7k030987@waco.inria.fr>
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 06:13:23PM +0200, Bruno.Verlyck@inria.fr wrote:
> Anyway, all those language comparisons are always biased; is `program
> length' a good measure of scripting capacity ? It turns the
> comparison into a shortest script challenge, doesn't it ?
Actually it's not a bad measure. One of the reasons I prefer Perl
over Java, and OCaml over Perl, is verbosity. On a scale of length of
programs:
OCaml < Perl <<<<<<< Java
In fact I don't think I've ever seen anything as horribly verbose (and
useless) as Java. COBOL perhaps?
Rich.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-14 9:52 Richard Jones
2004-06-14 15:55 ` Brian Hurt
2004-06-14 16:29 ` Richard Jones
2004-06-15 6:40 ` Florian Hars
2004-06-15 16:13 ` Bruno.Verlyck
2004-06-15 17:15 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2004-06-15 17:35 ` John Goerzen
2004-06-15 18:16 ` Karl Zilles
2004-06-15 19:23 ` John Goerzen
2004-06-15 21:17 ` Alex Baretta
2004-06-16 2:12 ` skaller
2004-06-15 17:41 ` Jon Harrop
2004-06-15 17:42 ` William D. Neumann
2004-06-15 18:27 Hellflame
2004-06-15 20:07 ` Brian Hurt
2004-06-16 2:26 ` skaller
2004-06-16 11:00 ` sejourne kevin
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