From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BA39BBCA for ; Mon, 12 May 2008 20:23:17 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AuIBAB8oKEjUnw7Wb2dsb2JhbACCMY9cAQwFAgQHEwOZdg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,474,1204498800"; d="scan'208";a="12503859" Received: from ptb-relay03.plus.net ([212.159.14.214]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 12 May 2008 20:23:17 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by ptb-relay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1Jvcg7-0002qI-VZ for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Mon, 12 May 2008 19:23:16 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Why OCaml sucks Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 19:18:19 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200805090139.54870.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <4824953A.4000207@ericsson.com> <200805120931.04704.ober.14@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200805120931.04704.ober.14@osu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805121918.19726.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 6f3f0020c792eb39e3820bfb12ec120c X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 sells:98 frog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 fem:01 overly:02 numerical:03 numerical:03 benchmark:04 raises:05 multiply:06 packaged:08 i'm:09 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