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From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+lists/caml/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: convincing management to switch to Ocaml
Date: 26 Aug 1999 14:36:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5lso56fkxn.fsf@tequila.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990825135019.009a8990@mail.triode.net.au>

>>>>> "John" == John Skaller <skaller@maxtal.com.au> writes:
> 	Wrong. C++ is type safe, provided you don't use casts.

And several other C constructs like unions, arrays, varargs, manual
memory management, ...

I wish my crond and other similar daemons were written in O'Caml
or some other safe language.  After all, where is bit-twiddling
(or CPU-performance as opposed to IO and algorithm speed) required
in those programs anyway ?


	Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-08-28 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-07-28 14:47 STARYNKEVITCH Basile
1999-07-30  9:00 ` Markus Mottl
1999-08-13 10:32   ` John Skaller
1999-08-25  1:51     ` Frank A. Christoph
1999-08-25  3:50       ` John Skaller
1999-08-25  6:34         ` Frank A. Christoph
1999-08-26 18:36         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
1999-08-29  6:08           ` John Skaller
1999-08-27 10:00         ` Andreas Rossberg
1999-08-28  6:24           ` John Skaller
1999-08-30 15:59             ` Sylvain BOULM'E
1999-08-31  5:50             ` Brian Rogoff
1999-08-28 19:51           ` Dave Mason
1999-08-30 19:05             ` Xavier Leroy
1999-08-30  8:02           ` Pierre Weis
1999-08-30 19:35             ` John Skaller
1999-08-31 17:10               ` Pierre Weis
1999-09-03  6:56                 ` John Skaller
1999-08-31 19:03               ` Stefan Monnier
1999-09-03  7:28                 ` John Skaller
1999-08-31  0:13             ` John Prevost
1999-08-31  5:19               ` John Skaller
1999-08-31  6:35                 ` John Prevost
1999-09-03  5:42                   ` John Skaller
1999-08-31 16:24           ` Gerard Huet
1999-07-30 14:42 ` John Skaller
1999-07-30 18:49 ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-07-30 21:30 ` Francois Rouaix
1999-08-12 10:36 ` Reply to: " Jens Olsson
1999-08-16 18:33   ` Chris Tilt
1999-08-12 12:15 ` Frank A. Christoph
1999-08-15  8:14   ` Friedman Roy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-09-07  7:24 TommyHallgren
     [not found] <John Skaller's message of "Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:19:48 +1000">

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