From: Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] - Convert Caml to C/C++, C#, PHP, etc -
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:39:21 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081003153921.9bc91e12.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19792384.post@talk.nabble.com>
axllaruse wrote:
> I would like to convert all the MTASC open source project to
> C/C++ or PHP.
Sorry, but you're crazy.
MTASC is a compiler and compilers are one of the tasks that
Ocaml does better that all of the languages you mention.
Converting the MTASC compiler to a less capable language (yes, C++
is less capable) would be an exercise in extreme Greenspunning:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun's_Tenth_Rule
in that you would need to implement in the target language many
features that are built into Ocaml.
Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-03 5:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-03 4:03 axllaruse
2008-10-03 4:18 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-10-03 5:33 ` axllaruse
2008-10-03 5:39 ` Erik de Castro Lopo [this message]
2008-10-03 8:06 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-10-03 9:56 ` [Caml-list] " Roberto Bagnara
2008-10-09 21:47 ` Kuba Ober
2008-10-09 21:57 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-10-10 4:26 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-10 3:30 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-10-10 4:55 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-10 14:25 ` Mauricio Fernandez
2008-10-10 12:37 ` Kuba Ober
2008-10-10 13:38 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2008-10-03 16:57 ` David Teller
2008-11-17 14:30 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2008-10-03 9:50 ` Erkki Seppala
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