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Subject: Re: Any reason to use C?

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 15:55:13 07/28/03

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On July 28, 2003 at 18:41:19, Dan Andersson wrote:

> Forth, Scheme or OCaml. Forth is an old love.

In university I never liked languages like Prolog or Scheme (although I liked
Scheme more than Prolog). I used to compare these languages to C/C++, as riding
a donkey to driving a Mercedes :)


> As for functional languages:
> They are easy to work with, interactive. And functional languages are IMO fast
>enough now. ML laguages are as fast as C or faster for may applictions. And the
>type system and relative side effect free nature of them is appealing.
> And it seems reasonably easy to add Partially Ordered Sets in them. POS is one
>of the key issues in my current chess/game algorithm thinking.
>
>MvH Dan Andersson



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