From: Jean-Hugues ROBERT Date: 2004-06-13T21:37:50+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby and mustard At 14:38 12/06/2004 +0900, you wrote: >On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 08:47:52 -0600, Ara.T.Howard wrote: > >> >> what do you do when ruby just won't quite cut the mustard? >.... >> when you want to write something faster than ruby, but want basic (IMHO) >> tools at your disposal like hashes, good string handling, exceptions, etc. >> what is the way to go? > >It may not be a practical solution now, because it will take you some time >to learn, but you might want to look into using OCaml in the future. OCaml >is a powerful functional language that can produce native binary >executables on a number of platforms. OCaml execution speed is extremely >impressive. In just about every scenario, the speed of an OCaml program >exceeds that of a comparable c++ program, and there some situations where >Ocaml execution speed may even exceed that of a comperable c program. > >Ocaml is also a good choice, because it is object oriented, and it >provides a lot of really useful/powerful extras that vastly simplify code. >Hashes are available via the Hashtbl module, and type-homogenous lists are >a native part of the language. OCaml has a map function, and handles lists >with incredible grace. > >-- SegPhault Last "Recent News" is september 2003. I wonder if that means that the thing is not very active anymore ? Yours, JeanHuguesRobert ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Web: http://hdl.handle.net/1030.37/1.1 Phone: +33 (0) 4 92 27 74 17