Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 13:46:14 06/20/02
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On June 20, 2002 at 16:24:18, Dann Corbit wrote: >On June 20, 2002 at 16:19:05, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>On June 20, 2002 at 15:57:47, Oliver Roese wrote: >> >>>On June 20, 2002 at 14:12:41, Peter Fendrich wrote: >>> >>>>Has anyone used ocaml writing their engine? >>>> >>>>Peter >>> >>>I have never used it, but i found it recently and i am already very >>>enthusiastic about it. >>>It has a undogmatic mixture of functional and imperative >>>elements, is very well implemented, completely free and >>>has a growing community. >>>It can be compiled and interpreted and has modulsupport. >>>Definitely worth to hava look at (though it does _not_ fit everyones >>>need...) >>> >>>Oliver >> >> >>How would you compare ocaml to Python? How about to C# (or VB.NET)? > >Caml is a functional programming language. >http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/general-eng.html >Python is a scripting language. > There have been significant projects that have had to choose between using these two languages. I think either language could be used either way, although your categorization may represent the most common usages. But anyway, how would you compare them for syntax, OOP, etc.? >C# and VB.NET are .NET languages designed to create front ends for Web apps. >I think they are all very differently targeted. It does not make a lot of sense >to compare them. Though their targets are different, all 3 are programming languages and it is quite possible to compare using many criteria. But the real intention of the question was to ask this: Couldn't Microsoft have used the ocaml language, INSTEAD of inventing a whole new language (C#), as their choice for targeting applications to the .NET framework? Ocaml seems to have most of the required facilities.
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