From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Why OCaml sucks
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 19:18:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805121918.19726.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200805120931.04704.ober.14@osu.edu>
On Monday 12 May 2008 14:31:04 Kuba Ober wrote:
> I'm no F# fanboy; I use Ocaml exclusively for most of my numerical work
> (some FEM, all numerical methods courses I take), but as a language for
> packaged application development (bread-and-butter stuff that sells in
> boxes or via downloads) it's simply not there yet for me. F# would be more
> like it, if I weren't wary of .net platform lock-in. Give Mono a few more
> years and it won't be an issue anymore...
This raises the question of whether or not the Mono backend for OCaml might
pay off? My impression is that Mono is going nowhere but I have been known to
be overly skeptical in the past. ;-)
Speaking of which, it would also be interesting to compare the performance of
OCaml with F#/Mono on that matrix-matrix multiply benchmark...
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-12 18:23 UTC|newest]
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2008-05-09 0:39 Jon Harrop
2008-05-09 1:11 ` [Caml-list] " Matthew William Cox
2008-05-09 5:10 ` [Caml-list] Re: Why OCaml **cks Jon Harrop
2008-05-09 4:45 ` [Caml-list] Re: Why OCaml sucks Arthur Chan
2008-05-09 5:09 ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-09 11:12 ` [Caml-list] Re: Why OCaml rocks Gerd Stolpmann
2008-05-09 11:58 ` Gabriel Kerneis
2008-05-09 12:10 ` Concurrency [was Re: [Caml-list] Re: Why OCaml rocks] Robert Fischer
2008-05-09 12:41 ` [Caml-list] Re: Why OCaml rocks Gerd Stolpmann
2008-05-09 12:49 ` David Teller
2008-05-09 18:10 ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-09 20:40 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2008-05-09 20:55 ` Berke Durak
2008-05-10 10:56 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2008-05-09 21:00 ` Till Varoquaux
2008-05-09 21:13 ` Berke Durak
2008-05-09 22:26 ` Richard Jones
2008-05-09 23:01 ` Berke Durak
2008-05-10 7:52 ` Richard Jones
2008-05-10 8:24 ` Berke Durak
2008-05-10 8:51 ` Richard Jones
2008-05-13 3:47 ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-09 22:25 ` David Teller
2008-05-09 22:57 ` Vincent Hanquez
2008-05-10 19:59 ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-10 21:39 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-05-11 3:58 ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-11 9:41 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-05-12 13:22 ` Richard Jones
2008-05-12 18:07 ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-12 20:05 ` Arthur Chan
2008-05-13 0:42 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2008-05-13 1:19 ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-13 2:03 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2008-05-13 3:13 ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-12 20:33 ` Arthur Chan
2008-05-12 21:22 ` Till Varoquaux
2008-05-09 13:00 ` [Caml-list] Re: Why OCaml sucks Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)
2008-05-09 17:46 ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-09 18:17 ` Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)
2008-05-10 1:29 ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-10 14:51 ` [Caml-list] Re: Why OCaml **cks Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)
2008-05-10 18:19 ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-10 21:58 ` Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)
2008-05-10 18:39 ` Mike Lin
2008-05-12 13:31 ` [Caml-list] Re: Why OCaml sucks Kuba Ober
2008-05-12 18:18 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2008-05-12 13:13 ` Kuba Ober
2008-05-12 19:32 ` Arthur Chan
2008-05-09 6:31 ` Tom Primožič
2008-05-09 6:46 ` Elliott Oti
2008-05-09 7:53 ` Till Varoquaux
2008-05-09 7:45 ` Richard Jones
2008-05-09 8:10 ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-09 9:31 ` Richard Jones
2008-05-09 7:58 ` [Caml-list] Re: Why OCaml rocks David Teller
2008-05-09 10:29 ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-09 13:08 ` David Teller
2008-05-09 15:38 ` Jeff Polakow
2008-05-09 18:09 ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-09 20:36 ` Berke Durak
2008-05-09 22:34 ` Richard Jones
2008-05-14 13:44 ` Kuba Ober
2008-05-09 8:29 ` constructive criticism about Ocaml Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)
2008-05-09 9:45 ` [Caml-list] Re: Why OCaml sucks Vincent Hanquez
2008-05-09 10:23 ` [Caml-list] Re: Why OCaml **cks Jon Harrop
2008-05-09 22:01 ` Vincent Hanquez
2008-05-09 22:23 ` David Teller
2008-05-10 8:36 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2008-05-10 9:18 ` Vincent Hanquez
2008-05-09 11:37 ` [Caml-list] Re: Why OCaml sucks Ralph Douglass
2008-05-09 13:02 ` [Caml-list] Re: Why OCaml rocks David Teller
2008-05-09 12:33 ` not all functional languages lack parallelism Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)
2008-05-09 18:10 ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-09 20:26 ` Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)
2008-05-12 12:54 ` [Caml-list] Re: Why OCaml sucks Kuba Ober
2008-05-12 14:16 ` Jon Harrop
2008-05-13 13:33 ` Kuba Ober
2008-05-13 13:49 ` Robert Fischer
2008-05-13 14:01 ` Brian Hurt
2008-05-13 14:13 ` Robert Fischer
2008-05-13 15:18 ` Berke Durak
2008-05-14 4:40 ` Kuba Ober
2008-05-13 14:25 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2008-05-14 4:29 ` Kuba Ober
2008-05-12 13:01 ` Kuba Ober
2008-05-12 19:18 ` Arthur Chan
2008-05-12 19:41 ` Karl Zilles
2008-05-13 13:17 ` Kuba Ober
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