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=none 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 A5359BBAF for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 07:40:19 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiYBAJdM5UjLOwGUh2dsb2JhbACTYQEBAQoLCgUTBKddA4Fl X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,354,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="17607288" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 03 Oct 2008 07:40:19 +0200 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m935eIfM020525 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 07:40:19 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiYBAJdM5UjLOwGUh2dsb2JhbACTYQEBAQoLCgUTBKddA4Fl X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,354,1220220000"; d="scan'208";a="17607286" Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au ([203.59.1.148]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 03 Oct 2008 07:40:17 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAJdM5UjLzuai/2dsb2JhbAC7fAOBZQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,354,1220198400"; d="scan'208";a="331952574" Received: from unknown (HELO hendrix.mega-nerd.net) ([203.206.230.162]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 03 Oct 2008 13:39:21 +0800 Received: from hendrix (hendrix [192.168.200.99]) by hendrix.mega-nerd.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B77AAB12F for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:39:21 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:39:21 +1000 From: Erik de Castro Lopo To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] - Convert Caml to C/C++, C#, PHP, etc - Message-Id: <20081003153921.9bc91e12.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <19792384.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <19791755.post@talk.nabble.com> <20081003141811.0cc9fb49.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> <19792384.post@talk.nabble.com> Reply-To: caml-list@inria.fr Organization: Erik Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 48E5B042.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 compiler:01 ocaml:01 compiler:01 wikipedia:01 wiki:01 wrote:01 compilers:01 caml-list:01 caml:02 languages:03 erik:04 erik:04 converting:05 implement:06 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 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Java is, in many ways, C++--." -- Michael Feldman